inspector calls

Question 1

characters:

                        Sheila

Answer 1

Selfish: ‘you used the power you had to punish the girl’
strong minded: ‘I don’t believe I will so you be careful’
sharp: ‘hes giving us the rope-so that we’ll hand ourselves’
moral: ‘these girls aren’t just cheap labour-there people’

Question 2

characters

                Inspector Goole

Answer 2

mysterious: ‘was it a hoax?’
moral: ‘we are all members of one body’
authorative: ‘all in good time’
an outsider

Question 3

characters

                Sybil

Answer 3

cruel: ‘I used my influence to have her refused’
prejudiced: ‘as if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money’
proud: ‘I was the only one that didn’t give in to him’
traditional: ‘when your married you’ll realise’

Question 4

characters

                 Eric

Answer 4

unloved: ‘you don’t understand, you never do’
an alcoholic: ‘I was in a state where a chap easily turns nasty’
irresponsible: ‘I don’t even remeber, thats the hellish thing’
sensitive: ‘God I dont think I could forget’

Question 5

characters

                Gerald

Answer 5

upper class: ‘landed people and so fourth’
respectable: ‘the easy well-bred young man about town’
a liar: ‘I wasn’t telling you a complete lie’
traditional: ‘I should say so!’ (agreeing with Birling)

Question 6

characters

                 Eva Smith/Daisy Renton

Answer 6

attractive: ‘young and fresh and charming’
honourable: ‘she didnt want to take any more money from him’
working-class: ‘girls of that class’‘a girl of that sort’
a prostitute: ‘there were some women who wanted her to go there’

Question 7

characters

              Mr Birling

Answer 7

ambitious: ‘theres a very good chance of a knighthood’
business-minded: ‘a hard-headed, practical man of business’
selfish: ‘a man has to make his own way’
anxious: ‘there’ll be a public scandal-unless we’re lucky’

Question 8

what does Priestley use the Inspector as?

Answer 8

Priestley uses Inspector Goole as a conduit of his own views (socialism)

Question 9

what does Priestley use Eva/Daisy as?

Answer 9

Priestley uses Eva/Daisy as a representation of all the lower, working class people in society

Question 10

what are some quotations that show the yound vs old?

Answer 10

‘the famous younger generation and they can’t even take a joke’
‘When your married, you’ll realise’
‘I don’t think I will so you be careful’

Question 11

what are some quotations for the theme social responsibility?

Answer 11

‘Me and your mother have all the excuses for what we did’
‘God I dont think I could forget’
‘We aren’t the same people that sat down to dinner’

Question 12

what are some quotations for the theme social class?

Answer 12

‘girls of that sort’
‘I used my influence to have it refused’
‘the well-bred young man about town’
‘you used your power to punish the girl’