Essentials

Question 1

Mr Birling

As if we were all mixed up _______________

Answer 1

together like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense

Question 2

Mr Birling

If you don’t come down sharply on some of…

Answer 2

…these people, they’d soon be asking for the earth

Question 3

Mr Birling

There’ll be a ________ - unless we are lucky - and who here will suffer from that more than I wil?

Answer 3

Public scandal

Question 4

Mrs Birling

As if _________ would ever refuse money!

Answer 4

Girl of that sort

Question 5

Mrs Birling

__________________ […] you have no power to make me change my mind

Answer 5

Unlike the other three, I did nothing I’m ashamed of

Question 6

Sheila

I felt rotten about it at the time and now I feel a lot worse. ______________

Answer 6

Did it make much difference to her?

Question 7

Sheila

____________. And you’ve stopped. You’re ready to go on in the ____________

Answer 7

You began to learn something

Same old way

Question 8

Eric

___________________? We try for the best possible prices

Answer 8

Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages

Question 9

Eric

• Birling is concerned about a ‘public scandal’
  (shouting) and I say the girls dead’s and we all helped to kill her -_________-

Answer 9

and that’s all that matters

Question 10

Gerald

__________________ [holds up ring]

Answer 10

Everything’s alright now Sheila

Question 11

Gerald

She was young and pretty and warm-hearted — and intensely grateful. I became at once the ____________

Answer 11

most important person in her life

Question 12

Inspector
We don’t live alone. ____________. We are responsible for each other. […] if men will not learn that lesson, they will be taught it in _____________

Answer 12

We are members of one body

Fire and blood and anguish

Question 13

Birling: i ought to warn you
Inspector: _________

Answer 13

I don’t play golf

Question 14

About Eva

Inspector says that Eric ‘used her as if she was an ________________________,

Answer 14

An animal, a thing, not a person

Question 15

About Eva

She was here, alone, friendless, almost penniless, desperate. She needed _______________________

Answer 15

Needed not only money, but advice, sympathy, friendliness.

Question 16

Dramatic devices
Birling: that a man has to mind his own business and ____________
[we hear a sharp ring of a _________. Birling stops to listen.]

Answer 16

look after himself and his own - and -

Door bell

Question 17

Dramatic devices
Birling: [pointing to Eric and Sheila] Now look at the pair of them — the famous younger generation who know it all. _____________

Answer 17

And they can’t even take a joke- [the telephone rings sharply].