Quotes Inspector Calls

Question 1

Gerald Talking about Sheila and how woman should be protected from disturbing stuff

Answer 1

Why should she stay? It’s bound to be unpleasant and disturbing

Question 2

Gerald afterwards acting like nothing happened

Answer 2

Everything’s alright now Sheila. What about this ring?

Question 3

Gerald sucking up to Mr Birling sacking Eva

Answer 3

You couldn’t have done anything else

Question 4

Gerald at the start

Answer 4

I don’t come into this suicide buisness

Question 5

Mr birling not wanting this to come out to the press so Mr birling can become a lord
And the inspector’s reply

Answer 5

I’d give thousands
You’re offering the money at the wrong time

Question 6

Acting like Mr Birling knows everything just because he’s a good buisness man

Answer 6

Speaking as a hard headed buisness man
Or German officers have had a bit too much to drink - leading to ww1
The Germans don’t want war- they were one of the ones who started it
And unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable

Question 7

Mr birling doesn’t understand that not all men are as lucky as him

Answer 7

A man has to make his own way

Question 8

Shows how clearly he doesn’t care about workers, just money

Answer 8

Lower costs and higher prices

Question 9

The inspector showing how he can’t be bribed like a normal offices

Answer 9

I don’t play golf

Question 10

The inspector taking charge when he shouldn’t have authority socially

Answer 10

One line of inquiry at a time please

Question 11

Using repetition to show how unfair this capitalist society is. Mouthpiece for J.B Priestley wanting a socialist society. The inspector

Answer 11

There are millions and million of Eva Smiths

Question 12

Shows how we should care for each other. Inspector

Answer 12

We are all responsible for each other

Question 13

What will happen if the rich don’t acknowlege the huge pay gap. Inspector

Answer 13

Fire and blood and anguish

Question 14

Inspector talking on how the younger ones have accepted what he’s said

Answer 14

We often do on the young ones

Question 15

Mrs Birling talking down on eva

Answer 15

Gurls of that class

Question 16

Mrs birling not taking responsobility

Answer 16

Ive done nothing wrong and you know it

Question 17

Mrs birling ignoring how her son is clearly a bad person

Answer 17

Go and look for the father of the child. It’s his responsoblility

Question 18

Eric describing the girl

Answer 18

She was pretty and a good sport

Question 19

Eric coming back to the family

Answer 19

You know don’t you

Question 20

Eric defying the rules of society

Answer 20

I’d have let her stay

Question 21

Eric taking responsobility, realising he needs money and is about to be a father and cares about this woman

Answer 21

I had to have some money

Question 22

Eric talking about his relationship with his father

Answer 22

Not the kind of father a chap could go to when he’s in trouble

Question 23

Sheila talking about it not making a difference if they get caught or not

Answer 23

It doesn’t make any real difference

Question 24

Calling out the family not caring

Answer 24

You don’t seem to have learnt anything

Question 25

Sheila Accepts her blame

Answer 25

I know i’m to blame

Question 26

Mrs birling talking about sheila saying squiffy

Answer 26

The things you girls pick up these days

Question 27

Shows how sheila gets given a ring worth girls her age like eva smith’s wages for 2 years

Answer 27

Look Mummy isn’t it a beuty

Question 28

Inspector telling the gruesome truth

Answer 28

Yes she’s dead
She was in great agony
Burnt her inside out

Question 29

Birling excusing gerald disgusting behavior.

Answer 29

Must understand that a lot of young men

Question 30

Inspector’s metaphor for how reliant we are of each other

Answer 30

We are members of one body

Question 31

Sheila being so regretful she blames herself for more than she should

Answer 31

I started it

Question 32

Sheila stage directions at the end

Answer 32

Who is crying quietly