Mr B Quotes

Question 1

Trying to tell people that he is a business man for authority

Answer 1

I’m talking as a hard-headed practical man of business

Question 2

Dramatic irony

Also he thinks he knows everything

Answer 2

you’ll hear some people say war is Inevitable … fiddlesticks

Question 3

Dramatic irony again we know that the titanic didn’t even make its first voyage

Answer 3

The Titanic – she sails next week…and unsinkable, absolutely
unsinkable

Question 4

Using knighthood to be approved socially by the higher class

Answer 4

I gather there’s a very good chance of a knighthood

Question 5

Communist views of the way of life

Answer 5

A man has to make his own way – has to look after himself – and his family too, of course

Question 6

Not taking blame for what he has done to the girl

Answer 6

Horrid business. But I don’t understand why you should come here

Question 7

His views on community

Answer 7

you’d think everybody has to look after everybody else, as if we were all mixed up like bees in a hive – community and all that nonsense

Question 8

He is trying to use his social status to make the inspector scared

Answer 8

I was an alderman for years – and Lord Mayor two years ago – and
I’m still on the Bench – so I know the Brumley police offers pretty well

Question 9

Trying to make excuses for him and mrs birling

Answer 9

There’s every excuse for what your mother and I did

Question 10

Trying to insult the inspector

Answer 10

Probably a Socialist or some sort of crank

Question 11

They think everything is better now

Answer 11

Now look at the pair of them- the famous younger generation who
know it all. And they can’t even take a joke