Inspector 😈

Question 1

Priestley uses the Inspector

Answer 1

as a polemic for his Socialist views

Question 2

The play’s structure is built around the Inspector’s

Answer 2

appearances and lines of questioning.

Question 3

Priestley explores the idea of a generation not learning

Answer 3

from mistakes. The Inspector sees it as his duty to break this cycle

Question 4

Public men, Mr Birling,

Answer 4

have responsibility as well as privileges.

Question 5

Inspector: but there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths

Answer 5

and John Smiths still left with us

Question 6

Inspector: It’s my duty to ask questions

Answer 6

Birling: Well it’s my duty to keep labour costs down.

Question 7

We don’t live alone:

Answer 7

We are members of one body

Question 8

Inspector: It’s the way I like to work

Answer 8

One person and one line of enquiry at a time.

Question 9

Sheila: …he’s giving us the rope…

Answer 9

so that we’ll hang ourselves.

Question 10

Sheila (to Mrs Birling): You’ll say or do

Answer 10

something that you’ll feel sorry for afterwards

Question 11

Gerald: Very artfully, working on bits of information he’s picked up here and there

Answer 11

he bluffs us into confessing that we’ve all been mixed up in this girl’s life in one way or another