quotes

Question 1

‘Substantial and heavily comfortable’

‘not cosy and homelike’ SD

Answer 1

imposing adjective ‘substantial’ connotes extreme wealth, surrounded by luxury
Excessive adverb ‘heavily’ overdone - materialistic as ‘not cosy and homelike’. Alternatively, suggests lack of family warmth
This gives the impression to the 1945 audience that the family is upper-class and are capitalistic

Question 2

Pink and intimate SD

Answer 2

Warm adjectives in happy tone 
Creates rosy-tinted atmosphere, reflect on rosy-tinted view of upper class people due to their privileges over the poor lower-class.

Question 3

Brighter and harder SD

Answer 3

Harsh comparative adjectives, contrasts to the previous joyful atmosphere
Imagery of the family being investigated, light shined on them by inspector
Priestley scrutinise on the family

Question 4

The parlourmaid SD

Answer 4

Maidservant noun
family is rich to be able to afford a maid - privileged
However, perhaps imply maid=representation women in Edwardian society serving others

Question 5

Heavy-looking SD

Answer 5

Heavy-looking - Adjective

Gluttonous, large presence, pompous air, greedy

Question 6

Provincial in his speech SD

Answer 6

Adjective ‘provincial’
Accent indicates he’s not of noble origin
Apart of a new class that emerged due to the Industrial Revolution - people who had a rise in fortunes by using the new methods of industry, rather than being in a wealthy noble family

Question 7

Cold woman SD

Answer 7

oxymoron at the time
Societal norms dictated women were meant to be loving and emotional
Detached attitude is unnatural

Question 8

Husband’s social superior SD

Answer 8

Noble family
Upper class from birth
Husband climbed up from social ladder
Connotations of haughty upper-class from noun “superior”

Question 9

Pretty girl SD

Answer 9

Adjective ‘pretty’ - No other defining feature
Society values looks
Young noun “girl” immaturity

Question 10

Early twenties SD

Question 11

Very pleased with life SD

Answer 11

Adverb “very”

Adjective “pleased”

Question 12

Rather excited SD

Answer 12

Eager adjective “excited”

Question 13

chap about thirty SD

Question 14

‘Easy well-bred’

‘young man about town’ SD

Answer 14

Idiomatic phrase
Fashionable socialite
Plural connotations
Perhaps, foreshadows unfaithful nature of Gerald as he goes around town

Question 15

early twenties SD

Answer 15

Repetition

United, similar

Question 16

not quite at ease SD

Question 17

Half shy, half assertive SD

Answer 17

Contrast

Inner turmoil

Question 18

Pleased with themselves SD

Question 19

Giving us the port, Edna? 11

Answer 19

Invisibly

Regarded as a functionary

Question 20

exactly the same port your father gets 11

Question 21

(gaily, possessively) 11

Answer 21

Stage direction

Question 22

mummy

Answer 22

Childish tone

Question 23

Edna. I’ll ring from the drawing room

Answer 23

Commanding tone

Question 24

Yes ma’am

Answer 24

Formal tone
The polite address
Contrasts with how the Birling family calls her “Edna”

Question 25

I’m treating Gerald like one of the family

Question 26

(half serious, half playful)

Answer 26

Contrast

Question 27

when you never came near me 11

Answer 27

Keen

Question 28

I was awfully busy 11

Question 29

get used to that, just as I had 11

Question 30

I don’t believe I will 11

Question 31

You’re squiffy 11

Answer 31

Colloquial language

Question 32

The things you girls pick up these days! 11

Question 33

You’re just the kind of son-in-law I always wanted 11

Question 34

For lower costs and higher prices 11

Question 35

Sheila’s a lucky girl 11

Question 36

Is it the one you wanted me to have? 11

Question 37

isn’t it a beauty?

Question 38

(who has put the ring on, admiringly) 11

Answer 38

Admiringly = adverb

Question 39

hard-headed businessman 11

Answer 39

Adjective “hard-headed”

Question 40

interests of capital- are properly protected 11

Question 41

What about war? 11

Question 42

The Germans don’t want war 11

Question 43

unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable 11

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Repetition

Dramatic irony

Question 44

Silly little war scares 11

Answer 44

Derogatory Adjective “silly” “little”

Question 45

Russia, which will always be behindhand naturally 11

Answer 45

Dramatic irony

Question 46

a man has to make his own way 11

Question 47

community and all that nonsense

Answer 47

Noun “nonsense”

Question 48

a man has to mind his own business and look after himself and his own - and- 11

Question 49

(sharp ring of a doorbell) 11

Answer 49

Stage direction

Question 50

Edna’ll answer it

Question 51

Show him in here. 11

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Short monosyllabic words

Question 52

impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness 11

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Triplet

Question 53

carefully, weightily 11

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Adverb

Question 54

looking hard 11

Question 55

Have a glass of port 11

Question 56

I’m on duty 11

Answer 56

Short sentence

Question 57

Lord Mayor two years ago 11

Question 58

(Touch of impatience) 11

Question 59

burnt her inside out 11

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Shocking imagery

Grotesque verb ‘burnt’

Question 60

(involuntarily) My god! 11

Answer 60

Exclamation

Question 61

Great agony 11

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Abstract noun

Question 62

Yes, yes. Horrid business. 11

Answer 62

Dismissive tone

Short sentence

Question 63

(Cutting through massively) 11

Question 64

several hundred young women there 11

Answer 64

Determiner “several”

Question 65

they keep changing 11

Answer 65

Continuous
Supply
Verb “keep”

Question 66

One person and one line of inquiry at a time 11

Question 67

wretched girl’s suicide 11

Answer 67

Adjective “wretched”

Question 68

chain of events

Answer 68

Metaphorical image.
Concrete noun “chain”- embodies physical linking. Perhaps inferring the links between various events involving the Birlings and Eva Smith could be what weighs down the entire family

Question 69

I don’t like that tone 11

Question 70

my duty to keep labour costs down 11

Question 71

it isn’t if you can’t go and work somewhere else 11

Answer 71

Eric

Question 72

They’d be all broke - if I know them 11

Question 73

she’s had a lot to say- far too much- so she had to go 11

Question 74

they’d soon be asking for the earth 11

Question 75

better to ask for the earth than to take it 11

Question 76

How do you get on with our chief constable 11

Question 77

(Dryly) I don’t play golf

Question 78

I’d have let her stay 11

Question 79

(rather angrily) 11

Question 80

Unless you brighten your ideas 11

Question 81

Oh - how horrible! 11

Question 82

(rather distressed) 11

Question 83

I wish you hadn’t told me 11

Question 84

she wasn’t pretty when I saw her today 11

Question 85

(with a marked change of tone) 11

Answer 85

Birling

Question 86

The girl’s dead though 11

Question 87

(cutting in) 11

Answer 87

Birling cuts in

Sheila cuts in

Question 88

lonely, half-starved, she was feeling desperate 11

Answer 88

Pathos

Question 89

these girls aren’t cheap labour - they’re people 11

Answer 89

Hyphen- pause of realisation as she releases the value of human lives. The pause also forces the audience to pause their thoughts to realise the same as Sheila

Question 90

counting their pennies, in their dingy little back bedrooms

Answer 90

Gloomy adjectives
“Dingy” “little”
Poverty imagery

Question 91

There must have been something wrong 11

Question 92

half-stifled sob, and then runs out 11

Question 93

upsetting the child like that? 11

Answer 93

Infantilising Noun “child”

Question 94

‘A nice little promising life’

‘nasty mess somebody’s made of it’

Question 95

we’re respectable citizens and not criminals

Answer 95

Gerald

Question 96

(miserably) So I’m really responsible?

Question 97

I was in a furious temper 11

Answer 97

Impulsive
Adjective “furious”
Noun “temper”

Question 98

It was my own fault 11

Question 99

miserable plain little creature 11

Question 100

used the power you had 11

Question 101

If I could help her now, I would 11

Question 102

(Harshly) Yes, but you can’t. It’s too late. She’s dead 11

Question 103

you think young women ought to be protected against unpleasant and disturbing things? 22

Question 104

(massively taking charge) 22

Question 105

A pretty, lively sort of girl, who never did anybody any harm 22

Question 106

And I know I’m to blame - and I’m desperately sorry 22

Question 107

(calmly) 22

Question 108

briskly and self-confidently, quite out of key 22

Question 109

(smiling social) 22

Question 110

we often do on the young ones. They’re more impressionable 22

Question 111

You’re looking tired, dear. I think you ought to go to bed 22

Question 112

mother I couldn’t possibly go 22

Answer 112

Mature noun “mother”

Question 113

Girls of that class 22

Question 114

impertinent is such a silly word 22

Question 115

(rather grandly) 22

Question 116

My husband was Lord Mayor only two years ago 22

Question 117

excitable silly mood 22

Question 118

isn’t he used to drinking? 22

Question 119

He’s only a boy 22

Question 120

(rather hot, bothered) 22

Question 121

(cutting in, with authority) 22

Question 122

be quiet, Sheila 22

Question 123

And I don’t propose to give you much rope 22

Question 124

You needn’t give me any rope 22

Question 125

What’s the matter with that child? 22

Question 126

favourite haunt of women of the town 22

Question 127

I hate those hard-eyes dough-faced women 22

Question 128

very pretty - soft brown hair and big dark eyes 22

Question 129

had weighed her into a corner with that obscene fat carcass 22

Question 130

(staggered) 22

Question 131

I didn’t install her there so that I could make love to her 22

Question 132

I became at once the most important person in her life 22

Question 133

my daughter, a young unmarried girl, is being dragged into this— 22

Question 134

your daughter isn’t living on the moon 22

Question 135

And I’m not a child 22

Question 136

I’ve got a right to know 22

Question 137

We’re you in love with her, Gerald? 22

Question 138

(hesitatingly) 22

Question 139

I didn’t feel about her as she felt about me 22

Question 140

You were the wonderful fairy prince 22

Question 141

Nearly any man would have done 22

Question 142

Disgusting affair 22

Question 143

So I broke it off 22

Question 144

(low, troubled tone.) 22

Question 145

She didn’t blame me at all 22

Question 146

(she hands him the ring.) 22

Question 147

You and I aren’t the same people who sat down to dinner here 22

Question 148

I’m a public man- 22

Question 149

(massively) Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges 22

Question 150

we’ve no excuse now for putting on airs 22

Question 151

Dropped her when it suited him 22

Question 152

A prominent member - of the Brumley Women’s Charity Organization 22

Question 153

(with dignity) 22

Question 154

silly boy! 22

Question 155

excitable queer moods 22

Question 156

gross impertinence 22

Question 157

prejudiced me against her case 22

Question 158

Damned impudence! 22

Question 159

She only had herself to blame 22

Question 160

she told at first - about a husband who’d deserted her - was quite false 22

Question 161

if you think you can bring any pressure to bear upon me, Inspector, you’re quite mistaken 22

Question 162

I did nothing I’m ashamed of 22

Question 163

Used my influence to have it refused 22

Question 164

I consider I did my duty 22

Question 165

You have no power to make me change my mind 22

Question 166

Just remember that this girl was going to have a child 22

Question 167

This wasn’t Gerald Croft- 22

Question 168

She was here alone, friendless, almost penniless, desperate 22

Question 169

you’ve had children. You must have known what she was feeling 22

Question 170

Slammed the door in her face 22

Question 171

the press may easily take it up– 22

Question 172

(agitated now) 22

Question 173

it was her business to make him responsible 22

Question 174

a lot of silly nonsense! 22

Question 175

giving herself ridiculous airs 22

Question 176

simply absurd in a girl in her position 22

Question 177

(very sternly) 22

Question 178

(As Birling tries to protest, turns on him) 22

Question 179

Don’t stammer and yammer at me again, man 22

Question 180

I’m losing all patience with you people 22

Question 181

(rather cowed) 22

Question 182

As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money!

Question 183

you’re quite wrong to suppose I shall regret what I did 22

Question 184

I was perfectly justified 22

Question 185

The girl herself 22

Question 186

(rather agitated now) 22

Question 187

he’d be entirely responsible 22

Question 188

(with sudden alarm) mother - stop - stop! 22

Question 189

Be quiet, Sheila! 22

Question 190

(severely) you’re behaving like a hysterical child tonight 22

Question 191

(grimly) Don’t worry Mrs Birling. I shall do my duty 22

Question 192

No hushing up, eh? Make an example of the young man, eh? 22

Question 193

I consider it your duty 22

Question 194

my boy - is mixed up in this-? 22

Question 195

(thunderstruck) 22

Question 196

(agitated) I don’t believe it.

Question 197

Eric enters, looking extremely pale and distressed 22

Question 198

The curtains falls quickly 22

Question 199

There must be some mistake 33

Question 200

you’re not the type - you don’t get drunk

Question 201

It was simply bound to come out tonight 33

Question 202

(miserably) could I have a drink first? 33

Question 203

(explosively) No 33

Question 204

(familiarity with quick heavy drinking) 33

Question 205

I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty 33

Question 206

Threatened to make a row 33

Question 207

And that’s when it happened 33

Question 208

Oh - my God! - how stupid it all is! 33

Question 209

(sharply) Sheila, take your mother along to the drawing room— 33

Question 210

I wasn’t in love with her or anything 33

Question 211

she was pretty and a good sport 33

Question 212

I hate these fart old tarts around the town 33

Question 213

as if I were a kid 33

Question 214

she refused to take any more 33

Answer 214

money- support//covering up what he did

Question 215

You damned fool 33

Question 216

You’re not the kind of father a chap could go to when he’s in trouble 33

Question 217

(nearly at breaking point) 33

Question 218

my child- your own grandchild- you killed them both 33

Question 219

damn you, damn you 33

Question 220

(very distressed now)

Question 221

No - Eric - please - I didn’t know 33

Question 222

(almost threatening her) 33

Question 223

You don’t understand anything 33

Question 224

(taking charge, masterfully) 33

Question 225

Remember that. Never forget it 33

Question 226

You refused her even the pitiable little bit of organised charity you had 33

Question 227

as if she was an animal, a thing, not a person 33

Question 228

You helped - but you didn’t start it 33

Question 229

(rather savagely, to Birling) 33

Question 230

she’ll make you pay a heavier price still 33

Question 231

I’d give thousands - yes, thousands 33

Question 232

millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths 33

Question 233

We are members of one body

Question 234

We are responsible for each other 33

Question 235

taught it in fire and blood and anguish 33

Answer 235

Semantic field of war

Question 236

There’ll be a public scandal 33

Question 237

I was almost certain for a knighthood 33

Question 238

I’m ashamed of you as well 33

Question 239

you’re beginning all over again to pretend that nothing much has happened 33

Question 240

(rather excited) 33

Question 241

a socialist or some sort of crank 33

Question 242

from the way you children talk 33

Question 243

Edna withdraws 33

Question 244

(excitedly) By jingo! A fake! 33

Question 245

(bitterly) I suppose we’re all nice people now

Question 246

She’s right, though 33

Question 247

This girl’s still dead, isn’t she? 33

Question 248

That won’t bring Eva Smith back to life 33

Question 249

Between us we drove that girl to commit suicide 33

Question 250

How do you know it’s the same girl? 33

Question 251

(triumphantly)

Question 252

(Imitating Inspector in his final speech) 33

Question 253

(pointing at Sheila and Eric, and laughing) 33

Answer 253

Verb “laughing”

Question 254

It frightens me the way you talk 33

Question 255

(passionately) you’re pretending everything just as it was before 33

Question 256

I’m not! 33

Question 257

You began to learn something. And now you’ve stopped 33

Question 258

They’re over-tired 33

Question 259

They’ll be as amused as we are 33

Question 260

What about this ring? 33

Answer 260

Ring symbolic of shackles society places on women

Question 261

The famous young generation who know it all 33

Answer 261

Mocking tone

Question 262

The telephone rings sharply 33

Answer 262

Repetition of imagery of “rings sharply”

Question 263

guiltily and dumbfounded 33

Answer 263

Ashamed adverb
Adjective “dumbfounded”
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