AIC - Mrs Birling

Question 1

Exposition (4)

Answer 1

‘a rather cold woman and her husband’s social superior’
‘really the things you girls pick up nowadays’
‘you’ll have to get used to it’
‘I think Sheila and I had better go to the drawing room and leave you men’

Question 2

Interrogations at the start of Act II (3)

Answer 2

‘(smiling, social)’
‘girls of that class’
‘it would be better if Sheila didn’t listen’

Question 3

Ignorant condemnation (3)

Answer 3

‘go out and find the father of that child. it is his responsibility’
‘as if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money’
‘a frightened glance’

Question 4

Denial and defeat (2)

Answer 4

‘I won’t believe it’
‘Mrs Birling has collapsed into a chair’

Question 5

Al final (3)

Answer 5

‘(triumphantly)’
‘well why shouldn’t we?’
‘I have done no more than my duty’