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Question 1

Age and Generational Difference

Answer 1

The famous younger generation who know it all.

Question 2

Age and Generational difference

Answer 2

Are you listening Sheila?

Question 3

Age and Generational Difference

Answer 3

Just let me finish Eric

Question 4

Age and generational difference

Answer 4

Please don’t contradict me like that

Question 5

Age and generational difference

Answer 5

You seem to have made a great impression on this child, Inspector

Question 6

Class

Answer 6

girls of that class

Question 7

Class

Answer 7

as if a girl of that sort would refuse money

Question 8

Class

Answer 8

Get into trouble? Go on the streets?

Question 9

Class

Answer 9

Because she had been turned out and turned down too many times

Question 10

Class

Answer 10

These girls aren’t cheap labour, they’re people

Question 11

Class

Answer 11

She was claiming elaborate fine feelings and scruples that were simply absurd in a girl in her position

Question 12

Time

Answer 12

a time of steadily increasing prosperity

Question 13

Time

Answer 13

fire and blood and anguish

Question 14

Time

Answer 14

a chain of events

Question 15

Time

Answer 15

A girl has just died – on her way to the infirmary

Question 16

Love and mariage

Answer 16

Now I feel really engaged

Question 17

Love and mariage

Answer 17

And I drink to you – and hope that I can make you as happy as you deserve to be

Question 18

Love and mariage

Answer 18

Men with important work to do spend nearly all their time and energy on their business

Question 19

Love and mariage

Answer 19

she was pretty and a good sport

Question 20

political ideologies

Answer 20

it’s my duty to keep labour costs down

Question 21

Political ideologies

Answer 21

their lives, their hopes and fears, their suffering, and chance of happiness, all intertwined with our lives, with what we think and say and do

Question 22

political ideologies

Answer 22

She needed not only money, but advice, sympathy, friendliness

Question 23

political ideologies

Answer 23

public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges

Question 24

Political Ideologies

Answer 24

I had done no more than my duty

Question 25

Political ideologies

Answer 25

the fact remains that I did what I did. And mother did what she did. And the rest of you did what you did to her

Question 26

Political ideologies

Answer 26

I behaved badly… I know I did. i’m ashamed of it

Question 27

Political ideologies

Answer 27

This girl killed herself - and died a horrible death. But each of you helped to kill her. Remember that. Never forget it