Mr Birling

Question 1

Description A1 stage directions

Answer 1

Arthur Birling is a heavy-looking, rather portentous man…with fairly easy manners but rather provincial in his speech

Question 2

Sycophantic towards gery - port

Answer 2

it’s exactly the same port your father gets

Question 3

Lower social class - dinner

Answer 3

this is very nice… Tell he cook from me.

Question 4

More concerned about business than the engagement -

Answer 4

Your father and I have been friendly rivals in business…no longer competing but are working together

Question 5

Looks down on Eric - Gerald engagement

Answer 5

You’re just the kind of son-in-law I always wanted.

Question 6

Evil- capitalist views

Answer 6

… for lower costs and higher prices.

Question 7

Happier that Sheila is marrying above her class than for her happiness

Answer 7

Sheila’s a lucky girl - and I think you’re pretty fortunate young man too

Question 8

Justification for his knowledge

Answer 8

I speak as a hard-headed business man…I say you can ignore all this silly pessimistic talk

Question 9

Rose tinted spectacles miners

Answer 9

the miners came out on strike…We’ve passed the worst of it.

Question 10

…steadily rising…

Answer 10

a time of steadily increasing prosperity (2 years before war)

Question 11

Kaiser

Answer 11

Just because the Kaiser makes a speech or two…people say that war’s inevitable.

Question 12

Nobody war

Answer 12

Nobody wants war except…folks in the balkans

Question 13

Lose and gain from war

Answer 13

Everything to lose and nothing to gain by war

Question 14

Man of business

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Titanic

Answer 15

the Titanic - she sails next week… unsinkable, absolutly unsinkable (even though 46,800 tonnes) (repeats that knowledge &laquo_space;trying to flex 💪🏽)