Mr Birling (An Inspector Calls)

Question 1

Stage direction describe Mr Birling (Act One)

Answer 1

(heavy-looking, rather portentous man)

Question 2

Mr Birling about his knighthood - foreshadowing what is about to happen

Answer 2

There’s a very good chance of a knighthood - so long as we behave ourselves

Question 3

Mr Birling showing his capitalist views

Answer 3

A man has to make his own way

Lower costs and higher prices

Question 4

Mr Birling being unsympathetic upon hearing about Birling’s death

Answer 4

Wretched girl’s suicide

Question 5

Birling not taking any responsibility for Eva’s death

Answer 5

I can’t accept any responsibility

Question 6

Contradictory simile with multiple interpretations

Answer 6

Like bees in a hive

Question 7

Mr Birling making excuses for upper class men in society

Answer 7

But you must understand that a lot of young men-