AIC

Question 1

As a hard-headed business man, who has to take risks and know what he’s about - i say, you can ignore all this silly pessimist talk.

Answer 1

-Mr Birling, Act 1

Question 2

Titanic - Unsinkable

Answer 2

-Mr Birling, Act 1

Question 3

So long as we behave ourselves, don’t get into the police court or start a scandal - eh?

Answer 3

-Mr Birling, (Act 1)

Question 4

You’d think everybody has to look after everybody else, as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense.

Answer 4

-Mr Birling, (Act 1)

Question 5

A few German Officers talking nonsense.

Answer 5

Mr Birling, (Act 1)

Question 6

Still, I can’t accept any responsibility. If we were all responsible for everything that happened to everybody we d had anything to do with, it would be very awkward, wouldn’t it?

Answer 6

Mr Birling (Act 1)

Question 7

Rubbish! If you don’t come down sharply on some of these people, they’d soon be asking for the earth.

Answer 7

Mr Birling (Act 1)

Question 8

(Angrily) Inspector, i’ve told you before, I don’t like the tone nor the way you’re handling this inquiry. And I don’t propose to give you much rope.

Answer 8

Mr Birling, (Act 2)

Question 9

(Angrily) Yes, and you don’t realize yet all you’ve done. Most of this is bound to come out. There’ll be a public scandal.

Answer 9

Mr Birling, (Act 3)

Question 10

(Angrily) Drop that. There’s every excuse for what both your mother and I did.

Answer 10

Mr Birling, (Act 3)

Question 11

That fellow obviously didn’t like us. He was prejudiced from the start. Probably a socialist or some sort of crank - he talked like one. And then, instead of standing up to him, you let him bluff you into talking about your private affairs.

Answer 11

Mr Birling, (Act 3)

Question 12

They might. But after all it’s better to ask for the earth than to take it.

Answer 12

Inspector Goole, (Act 1)

Question 13

(Steadily) That’s more or less what I was thinking earlier tonight when I was in the infirmary looking at what was left of Eva Smith. A nice little promising life there, I thought, and a nasty mess somebody’s made of it.

Answer 13

Inspector Goole, (Act 1)

Question 14

Sometimes there isn’t much difference as you think. Often, if it was left to me, I wouldn’t know where to draw the line between respectable citizens and criminals.

Answer 14

Inspector Goole, (Act 1)

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Inspector Goole, (Act 1)

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Inspector Goole, (Act 2)

Question 17

(Sternly to them both) You see, we have to share something. If there’s nothing else, we’ll have to share our guilt. (Act 2)

Answer 17

Inspector Goole, (Act 2)

Question 18

(Massively) Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges.

Answer 18

Inspector Goole, (Act 2)

Question 19

(To Mrs B) I think you did something terribly wrong - and that you’re going to spend the rest of your life regretting it.

Answer 19

Inspector Goole, (Act 2)

Question 20

Never forget it. (He looks from one to the other carefully.) But then I don’t think you ever will.

Answer 20

Inspector Goole, (Act 3)

Question 21

“Look, Inspector - I’d give thousands - yes, thousands”

Answer 21

Mr Birling, (Act 3)

Question 22

“They’d soon be asking for the
earth.”

Answer 22

Mr Birling, (Act 1)