Characters

Question 1

‘heavy looking, rather portentous man’

Answer 1

Mr Birling

Question 2

‘mixed up together like bees in a hive’

Answer 2

Mr Birling

Question 3

‘unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable’

Answer 3

Mr Birling

Question 4

‘the wretched girl’s suicide’

Answer 4

Mr Birling

Question 5

‘community and all that nonsense’

Answer 5

Mr Birling

Question 6

‘Girls of that class.’

Answer 6

Mrs Birling

Question 7

‘She was claiming elaborate fine feelings and scruples that were simply absurd
in a girl of her position.’

Answer 7

Mrs Birling

Question 8

‘I did nothing I’m ashamed of.’

Answer 8

Mrs Birling

Question 9

(On Eric’s drinking) ‘he’s only a boy.’

Answer 9

Mrs Birling

Question 10

‘I didn’t like her manner. She impertinently made use of our name.’

Answer 10

Mrs Birling

Question 11

‘I didn’t feel about her as she felt about me.’

Answer 11

Gerald Croft

Question 12

‘I was in that state whena chap easily turns nasty.’

Answer 12

Eric

Question 13

‘You’re not the kind of father a chap could go to when he’s in trouble.’

Answer 13

Eric

Question 14

‘You killed her – and the child she’d have had too – my child’

Answer 14

Eric

Question 15

‘You’re beginning to pretend as if nothing’s really happened at all.’

Answer 15

Eric

Question 16

‘we helped to kill her.’

Answer 16

Eric

Question 17

‘But these girls aren’t cheap labour – they’re people.’

Answer 17

Sheila

Question 18

‘I know I’m to blame and I’m desperately sorry.’

Answer 18

Sheila

Question 19

‘he’s giving us rope so that we’ll hang ourselves.’

Answer 19

Sheila

Question 20

‘I hate to think how much he knows that we don’t know yet.’

Answer 20

Sheila

Question 21

‘an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness’

Answer 21

Inspector Goole

Question 22

“We are responsible for each other”

Answer 22

Inspector Goole

Question 23

“fire and blood and anguish”

Answer 23

Inspector Goole

Question 24

‘public men… have responsibilities as well as privileges’

Answer 24

Inspector Goole