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Inspector Calls Flashcards

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Mr birling quote about a scandal

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“There’ll be a public scandal “

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Mr birling quote about hard headed

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“I speak as a hard-headed practical man of business “

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Mr birling quote about the titanic

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“Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable”

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Mr birling quote about socialism (one word)

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“Nonsense”

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Mr birling quote about looking after himself

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“Mind his own business and look after himself”

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Mr birling quote about the inspectors concern

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“Well inspector, I don’t see how that is any concern of yours how I choose to run my business”

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Mr birling quote about responsibility

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“I can’t accept any responsibility “

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Mr birling quote to Shiela

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“Run along”

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Mr birling quote about rates

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“If they didn’t like these rates they could go work someplace else”

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Mr birling quote about trouble

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“Get into trouble? Go on the streets?”

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Mr birling quote about the younger people

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“You three young people”

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Mr birling quote about money being stolen

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“Until every penny of the money you stole is repaid “

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Mrs birling quote about important work

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“Men with important work to do sometimes have to spend nearly all their time and energy on business”

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Mrs birling quote about lower class

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“Girls of that class”

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Mrs birling quote about the affair

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“Disgusting affair”

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Mrs birling quote about Eric

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“He’s only a boy”

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Mrs birling quote about bed

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“I think you ought to go to bed”

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Mrs birling quote about blaming Eva

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“She had only herself to blame”

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Mrs birling quote about the inspectors power

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“You have no power to make me change my mind”

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Mrs birling quote about accepting responsibility

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“I accept no blame for it at all”

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Gerald quote about Eva’s appearance

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“She was young and pretty and warm hearted - and intensely grateful “

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Gerald quote about being upset

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“I’m rather more - upset - by this business than I probably appear to be”

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Gerald quote about the inspectors credibility

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“There isn’t any such inspector. We’ve been had”

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Gerald quote about moving on to Shiela

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“Everything’s all right now Shiela”

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Gerald quote about going to Eva’s aid

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“Nothing less than a cry for help”

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Gerald quote about allowing

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“I’d allowed her”

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Gerald quote about darling

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“Now listen, darling”

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Gerald quote about the affair

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“You know, it wasn’t disgusting “

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Gerald quote about helping the inspector

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“Is there anything else you want to know “

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Gerald quote about his appearance

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“Well-bred young man”

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Gerald quote about proof

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“We’ve no proof”

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Gerald quote about the family

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“I insist upon being one of the family now”

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Shiela quote about labour

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“These girls aren’t cheap labour- they’re people”

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Shiela quote about responsibility (?)

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“So I’m really responsible ?”

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Shiela quote about walls between classes

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“You mustn’t try to build up a kind of wall between us and that girl “

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Shiela quote about the ring (excitement)

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“Oh - it’s wonderful! Look - mummy”

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Shiela quote about apologising

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“I’m sorry daddy”

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Shiela quote about responsibility (fault)

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“It was my own fault”

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Shiela quote about the ring (?)

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“Is this the one that you wanted me to have?”

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Shiela quote about the inspectors omniscience

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“He knows, of course he knows”

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Shiela quote about not leaving

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“Mother I couldn’t possibly go”

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Shiela quote about learning

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“ you don’t seem to have learnt anything”

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Shiela quote about inspecting

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“He inspected us all right”

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Eric quote about male agression

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“I insisted…I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty”

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Eric quote about wages

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“Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages”

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Eric quote about his child (…)

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“You killed her…and the child”

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Eric quote about his child (-)

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“My child - your own grandchild - damn you, damn you”

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Eric quote about drunkness

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“Squiffy”

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Eric quote about political knowledge

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“What about war”

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Eric quote about womens clothes

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“You’d think a girl had never had any clothes before she get married. Women are potty about em”

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Eric quote about where Eva could work

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“It isn’t if you can’t go and work someplace else”

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Eric quote about his entrance

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“Eric enters, looking extremely pale and distressed”

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Eric quote about love

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“I wasn’t in love with her or anything”

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Eric quote about forgetting

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“My god - I’m not likely to forget “

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Eric quote about the inspector

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“He was our police inspector all right”

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Eric quote about Shiela (positive)

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“Sheila’s right”

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Eric quote about Shiela (negative)

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“Why, you little sneak”

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Inspector quote about Eva’s situation/ place in society

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“Put ourselves in the place of these young women”

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Inspector quote about the suicide

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“She’s swallowed a lot of strong disinfectant. Burnt her inside out, of course. She was in great agony”

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Inspector quote about Eva’s commonness

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“There are millions and millions and millions of Eva smiths and John smiths”

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Inspector quote about the lighting

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“Brighter and harder “

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Inspector quote about his impression

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“Impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness”

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Inspector quote about his clothes

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“Dressed in a plain darkish suit”

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Inspector quote about one body (socialism)

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“We are all members of one body”

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Inspector quote about responsibility

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“We are responsible for each other”

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Inspector quote about patience

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“I’m losing all patience with you people”

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Inspector quote about the future war

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“Fire and blood and anguish”

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Inspector quote about the Earth

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“Better to ask for the Earth than to take it “

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Inspector quote about the younger generation

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“We often do on the younger ones, their more impressionable”

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Inspector quote about sharing

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“If there’s nothing else, we’ll have to share our guilt”

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When is inspector calls set

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1912

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When was inspector calls written

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1944

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Why did priestly set the play in 1912

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Because it represented the opposite to what people were hoping to see in 1944

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What is socialism based on

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Giving power and rights to the working class
Work unions and workers rights

75
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In 1942 priestly helped set up which political party

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The common wealth party
Argued for public land ownership, greater democracy and morality in politics
Merged with the Labour Party in 1945

76
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By what year did the Labour Party win the most number of seats in parliament for the first time

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1945

77
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How many Britons voted for Labour in 1945

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12 million

78
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What is Mr Birlings focus always on

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Improving social position

79
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Priestly uses Mrs birlings unfair judgement of Eva to show…

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… how unjust charity systems were, how the vulnerable in society need protection

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