A Taste of Honey

Question 1

Jo to Helen - Owe

Answer 1

‘I don’t owe you a thing’

Question 2

Jo to Helen - drinking

Answer 2

‘Drink, drink, drink, that’s all you’re fit for’

Question 3

Poverty - smell

Answer 3

‘This whole city smells’

Question 4

Helen to Jo - hope

Answer 4

‘Why do you bother?’

Question 5

Jo to Helen - bulbs

Answer 5

‘It’s nice to see a few flowers’

Question 6

Helen to Jo - death

Answer 6

‘We all end up the same way sooner or later’

Question 7

Helen to Jo - belief

Answer 7

‘You’re wasting yourself’

Question 8

Peter to Helen - escape

Answer 8

‘Did you think you could escape me dear’

Question 9

Peter about Helen - sexism

Answer 9

‘That puts another 10 years on her’

Question 10

Peter to Helen - transactional

Answer 10

‘You can’t afford to lose a man like me’

Question 11

Peter to Helen - disposable

Answer 11

‘The world is littered with women I’ve rejected’

Question 12

Boy to Jo - ‘toy car’

Answer 12

‘Stay a bit longer’

Question 13

Jo to Boy - naive

Answer 13

‘I don’t know why I love you but I do’

Question 14

Boy to Jo - prejudice

Answer 14

‘She’ll see a coloured boy’

Question 15

Peter to Jo - sexual

Answer 15

‘Well, there is one highly recommended way for a young girl to find out’

Question 16

Helen about Peter - wallet

Answer 16

‘He’s got a wallet full of reasons’

Question 17

Peter about apartment

Answer 17

‘Black hole of Calcutta’

Question 18

Helen to Jo - advice on marriage

Answer 18

‘Marriage can be hell for a kid’

Question 19

Jo to Geof - nursery rhymes

Answer 19

‘Silly things nursery rhymes’

Question 20

Helen to Geof - homophobic

Answer 20

‘What’s your part in this little Victorian melodrama? Nursemaid?’

Question 21

Helen to Jo - sexist

Answer 21

‘Silly little whore’

Question 22

Helen about Geof - homophobic

Answer 22

‘Pansified little freak’

Question 23

Peter taunting Jo

Answer 23

‘Who’s got a bun in the oven?’

Question 24

Peter about Geof

Answer 24

‘Who’s the lily?’

Question 25

Peter about Helen - appearance

Answer 25

'Look like a bloody unrestored oil painting'

Question 26

Helen carrying pains

Answer 26

'Loaded with baggage'

Question 27

Helen to Jo - utilising humour to not be transparent

Answer 27

'You see I couldn't stay away, could I?'

Question 28

Helen to Geof - poverty

Answer 28

'Living like pigs in a pigsty'

Question 29

Jo about Boy - name

Answer 29

'Jimmie' - came to terms with his race?

Question 30

Helen to audience

Answer 30

'What would you do?'

Question 31

Jo - final moments

Answer 31

'Pippin Hill'

Question 32

Geof about Jo - belief

Answer 32

'She's going to be alright'

Question 33

Boy to Jo - foreshadowing

Answer 33

'I'll probably never see you again, I know it'

Question 34

Jo about baby

Answer 34

'I'll bash its brains out'