Inspector Calls

Question 1

Arthur Birling quotation to do with him being keen to impress

Answer 1

“Finchley told me it’s exactly the same port your father gets from him”

Question 2

Arthur Birling quotation to do with him being dismissive

Answer 2

“there’s a lot of wild talk about possible labour trouble (…) Don’t worry. We’ve passed the worst of it”

Question 3

Arthur Birling quotation to do with dramatic irony and lack of credibility

Answer 3

1) “the Titanic […] absolutely unsinkable”
2) “some people say that war is inevitable. And to that I say fiddlesticks!”

Question 4

Arthur Birling quotation to do with selfishness

Answer 4

“…as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive , community and all that nonsense”

Question 5

Arthur Birling quotation to do with him being superior

Answer 5

“If you don’t come down sharply on some of these people, they’d soon be asking for the earth”

Question 6

Arthur Birling quotation to do with right wing

Answer 6

“A man has to come to mind his own business and look after himself and his own”

Question 7

Arthur Birling quotation to do with him being uncaring

Answer 7

“We were having a nice little family celebration tonight. And a nasty mess you’ve made of it now…”

Question 8

Arthur Birling quotations to do with him valuing reputation

Answer 8

1) “there’ll be a public scandal”
2) “I’ve got to cover this up as soon as I can”
3) “when this comes out at the inquest, it isn’t going to do us much good”

Question 9

Arthur Birling quotation to do with him bheing ambitious

Answer 9

“Perhaps we may look forword to the time when the Crofts and Birlings are no longer competing , but are working together”

Question 10

Eric Birling quotation to do with him being remorsful

Answer 10

“You lot may be letting yourselves out nicely, but I can’t”

Question 11

Eric Birling quotation to do with him being ashamed

Answer 11

“…don’t forget I’m ashamed of you as well”

Question 12

Eric Birling quotation to do with being supportive

Answer 12

“I insisted on giving her enough money to keep her going”

Question 13

Eric Birling quotation to do with him being responsible

Answer 13

“You’re beginning to pretend now that nothing’s really happend at all. And I can’t really see it like that”

Question 14

Eric Birling quotations to do with him being patronised

Answer 14

1) “In a way, she treated me … as if were a kid”
2) “Just keep quiet,Eric, and don’t get excited”
3) “You youngsters”
4) “Just you keep out of this”

Question 15

Eric Birling quotation to do with him willing to speak up

Answer 15

“He could of have kept her on instead of thhrowing her out”

Question 16

Gerald Croft quotation to do with him being a young capatalist

Answer 16

Birling: “for lower costs and higher prices”
Gerald: “Hear, Hear!”

Question 17

Gerald Croft quotation to do with him having good intentions

Answer 17

“I made her go to Morgan Terrace because I was sorry for her”

Question 18

Gerald Croft quotation to do with him being unfaithful

Answer 18

“I did keep a girl last summer. I’ve admitted it”

Question 19

Gerald Croft quotation to do with him being favoured by Birling

Answer 19

1) “Let me finish, Eric. You’ve a lot to learn yet”
2) “You’re just the kind of son in law I always wanted”

Question 20

Gerald Croft quotation to do with being intolerant of lower classes

Answer 20

“I hate those hard eyed dough faced women”

Question 21

Sheila Birling quotation to do with her feeling guilty

Answer 21

“I felt rotten about it at the time and now I feel alot worse”

Question 22

Sheila Birling quotation to do with her being bitter

Answer 22

“I’m supposed to be engaged to the hero of it”

Question 23

Sheila Birling quotation to do with her being responsible

Answer 23

“Miss Birling has just been made to understand what she did to this girl. She feel responsible”

Question 24

Sheila Birling quotation to do with her maturing

Answer 24

“You and I aren’t the same people who sat down to dinner here”

Question 25

Sheila Birling quotation to do with her being socially aware

Answer 25

“These girls aren’t cheaper labour

Question 26

Sheila Birling quotation to do with her being protected

Answer 26

“there isn’t the slightest reason why my daughter should be dragged into this unpleasant business”

Question 27

Sheila Birling quotation to do with her hope for the future

Answer 27

“They’re more impressionable […] … the young ones”

Question 28

Inspector Goole quotation to do with him being cunning

Answer 28

“No hushing up, eh? Make an example of the young man, eh? Public confession of responsibility … um?”

Question 29

Inspector Goole quotation to do with him not being intitmidated by class

Answer 29

1) “You heard what I said before, Mr Croft”
2) “Don’t stammer and yammer at me again, man. I’m losing all patience with you people.”

Question 30

Inspector Goole quotation to do with him representing Priestley’s voice and ideas

Answer 30

“We don’t live alone. We are members of one body”

Question 31

Inspector Goole quotation to do with him being forcful

Answer 31

1) “I’m not going until I know all that happend”
2) “(sharply) Come along, Mr Croft. What happend?”

Question 32

Inspector Goole quotation to do with being influential

Answer 32

“You seem to have made a great impression on this child, Inspector”

Question 33

Inspector Goole quotation to do with him being moral

Answer 33

1) “We have to sahre something. If there’s nothing else, we’ll have to share our guilt”
2) “Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as we as privileges”

Question 34

Inspector Goole quotation to do with being enigmatic

Answer 34

“There’s no Inspector Goole on the police. That man definetely wasn’t a police inspector at all”

Question 35

Sybil Birling quotation to do with her being arrogant

Answer 35

“He certainly didn’t make me confess”

Question 36

Sybil Birling quotation to do with her lacking empathy

Answer 36

“I’ll tell you what I told her. Go and look for the father of the child”

Question 37

Sybil Birling quotation to do with her lacking regret

Answer 37

“You’re quite wrong to suppose I shall regret what I did”

Question 38

Sybil Birling quotation to do with being prejudiced

Answer 38

1) “Girls of that class”
2) “She called herself Mrs Birling… it was simply a peice of gross impertinence

Question 39

Sybil Birling quotation to do with being superior

Answer 39

“As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money”

Question 40

Sybil Birling quotation to do with her having no remorse

Answer 40

“She only had herself to blame”

Question 41

What era was IC set in

Answer 41

Edwardian era

Question 42

What term could the Birling family be labelled as

Answer 42

“bourgeoisie” is a term that emerged following the French Revolution (1789/1799). It refers to the wealthy middle class groups who are seen as dominant in society and who make money from the efforts of the “proletariat” (working class)

Question 43

Who does Mr Birling mock in the play

Answer 43

H.G Wells (1866/1946), a prominent author who held socialist beliefs. Wells would have been known in both 1912 and 1945

Question 44

What prompted Priestly to write about a worker protest

Answer 44

The Jarrow Crusade: this was the name given to a protest against unemployment in October 1930. Groups of unemployed workers marched from the town of Jarrow (near Newcastle) to London carrying a petition to British government (290 miles). The march caught widespread attention and is seen as a memnorable moment in the relation to workers’ rights.

Question 45

What does Priestly make the Birling family commit in oder to heighten the seriousness of their actions

Answer 45

Seven deadly sins: lust, greed, envy, gluttony, sloth, pride, wrath: all can be identified in the Birlings and their actions