MR BIRLING

Question 1

What does he look like?

Answer 1

“a heavy-looking, rather portentous looking man in his middle fifties with fairly easy manners but rather provincial in his speech”

Question 2

Crofts

Answer 2

“perhaps we may look forward to the time when Crofts and Birlings… are working together- for lower costs and higher prices.”

Question 3

Prosperity

Answer 3

“there’ll be peace and prosperity and rapid progress everywhere.”

Question 4

Man

Answer 4

“…a man has to make his own- has to look after himself- and his family too.”

Question 5

Cranks

Answer 5

“…the way some of these cranks talk and write now, you’d think everybody has to look after everybody else…community and all that nonsense… a man has to mind his own business.”

Question 6

Responsibilty

Answer 6

“I can’t accept any responsibility. If we were all responsible for everything that happened to everybody we’d had anything to do with, it would be very awkward.”

Question 7

Rates

Answer 7

“We were paying the usual rates and if they didn’t like those rates,they could go and work somewhere else. It’s a free country, I told them.”

Question 8

Scandal

Answer 8

“There’ll be a public scandal.” “I was almost certain for a knighthood.”

Question 9

Ring

Answer 9

“Look, you’d better ask Gerald for that ring you gave back to him.”