quotes and names

Question 1

Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable

Answer 1

Mr Birling

Question 2

“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.”

Answer 2

Mr Birling

Question 3

‘I’m very sorry. But I think she only had herself to blame’

Answer 3

Mrs Birling

Question 4

“About fifty, a rather cold woman and her husband’s social superior”

Answer 4

Mrs Birling

Question 5

“girls of that class”

Answer 5

Mrs Birling

Question 6

“I’m sorry she should have come to such a horrible end. But I accept
no blame at all”

Answer 6

Mrs Birling

Question 7

“Go and look for the father of the child. It’s his responsibility.”

Answer 7

Mrs Birling

Question 8

‘I’m very sorry. But I think she only had herself to blame’

Answer 8

Mrs Birling

Question 9

“Yes, go on, Mummy”

Answer 9

Sheila

Question 10

“But these girls aren’t cheap labour- they’re people.”

Answer 10

Sheila

Question 11

“I’ll never, never do it again to anybody…I feel now I can never go
there again”

Answer 11

Sheila

Question 12

“It frightens me the way you talk”

Answer 12

Sheila

Question 13

“In his early twenties, not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive”

Answer 13

Sheila

Question 14

“I wasn’t in love with her or anything- but I liked her- she was pretty
and a good sport-”

Answer 14

Eric

Question 15

“You’re not the kind of father a chap could go to when he’s in trouble that’s why.”

Answer 15

Eric

Question 16

“He was our police inspector all right”

Answer 16

Eric

Question 17

“(shouting) And I say the girl’s dead and we all helped to kill her- and
that’s what matters-”

Answer 17

Eric

Question 17

“An attractive chap about thirty, rather too manly to be a dandy but
very much the easy well-bred young man-about-town”

Answer 17

Gerald

Question 18

“But how do you know it’s the same girl? … We’ve no proof it was the
same photograph and therefore no proof it was the same girl”

Answer 18

Gerald

Question 19

“it’s better to ask for the Earth than to take it”

Answer 19

Inspector

Question 20

“A girl died tonight. A pretty, lively sort of girl, who never did anybody
any harm. But she died in misery and agony- hating life-”

Answer 20

Inspector

Question 21

“Everything’s all right now Sheila. What about this ring?”

Answer 21

Gerald

Question 22

fire and blood and anguish

Answer 22

Inspector

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Mr Birling

Question 23

As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money

Answer 23

Mrs Birling

Question 24

I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty

Answer 24

Eric

Question 25

community and all that nonsense

Answer 25

Mr Birling