The History Boys

Question 1

Mrs Lintott comparison of men and women in History

Answer 1

‘History’s not such a frolic for women as it is for men’

Question 2

Mrs Lintott explaining what History is to her’

Answer 2

‘What is History? History if women following behind with a bucket’

Question 3

Timms being comedic towards women in History

Answer 3

‘No tits?’

Question 4

Rudge’s use of expletive to show his self esteem

Answer 4

‘I’m shit at all this. Sorry’

Question 5

Rudge’s syndetic pair to show his class

Answer 5

‘dull and ordinary’

Question 6

Hector’s final line continuing the extended metaphor of games

Answer 6

‘Pass it on, boys. That’s the game I wanted you to learn’

Question 7

Irwin in the holocaust scene using an imperative

Answer 7

‘Distance yourselves’

Question 8

Rudge on how he feels about history

Answer 8

‘How do I define History? It’s just one fucking thing after another’

Question 9

Scripps on christianity

Answer 9

‘It’s time consuming, you have no idea’

Question 10

Dakin - link between history and sex

Answer 10

‘History is fucking’

Question 11

How Mrs Lintott think men see women

Answer 11

‘I am what men would call a safe pair of hands’

Question 12

Scripps being sided with Hector’s teaching styles

Answer 12

‘Love apart, it is the only eduction worth having’

Question 13

Posner about his choices and future

Answer 13

‘All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left’

Question 14

Dakin talking about how Irwin makes him feel

Answer 14

‘I have never wanted to please anybody the way I do him’

Question 15

Irwin questioning truth because he sees it as one angle

Answer 15

‘What has that got to do with it? What has that got to do with anything?’

Question 16

Posner on whether the holocaust should be taught

Answer 16

‘If it can be explained, it can be explained away’

Question 17

Dakin after the boys have secured place and how easy it is to make history

Answer 17

‘I hadn’t realised how easy it is to make things happen’

Question 18

Mrs Lintott in the photograph scene passing on prejudice she faces to Rudge

Answer 18

‘Rudge you go down there’

Question 19

Headmasters ideologies in the photograph scene

Answer 19

‘It isn’t for the boys. It’s for the school’

Question 20

Headmaster ordering Rudge

Answer 20

‘Rudge, floor’

Question 21

Rudge using hypophora to show his self awareness

Answer 21

‘How come they told me or how come they took a thick sod like me?’

Question 22

Headmasters shock and prejudice towards Rudge

Answer 22

‘Somebody in your family went to Christ Church?’

Question 23

Posner talking to Scripps about him and Irwin feeling the same way

Answer 23

‘Our eyes meet looking at Dakin’