all characters aic

Question 1

Sheila

Answer 1

A pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited

Question 2

Sheila

Answer 2

Yes, go on, Mummy

Question 3

Sheila

Answer 3

(rather distressed) I can’t help thinking about this girl- destroying herself so horribly- and I’ve been so happy tonight. Oh I wish you hadn’t told me.

Question 4

Sheila

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Sheila

Answer 5

She was a very pretty girl…that didn’t make it any better.

Question 6

Sheila

Answer 6

I went to the manager and told him this girl had been very impertinent – and – and -

Question 7

Sheila

Answer 7

And if I could help her now, I would-

Question 8

Sheila

Answer 8

I’ll never, never do it again to anybody…I feel now I can never go there again

Question 9

Sheila

Answer 9

Why- you fool- he knows. Of course he knows. And I hate to think how much he knows that we don’t know yet. You’ll see. You’ll see

Question 10

Sheila

Answer 10

You mustn’t try to build up a kind of wall between us and that girl. If you do the Inspector will just break it down. And it’ll be all the worse when he does

Question 11

Sheila

Answer 11

No, he’s giving us the rope- so that we’ll hang ourselves

Question 12

Sheila

Answer 12

Bitterly ”I suppose we’re all nice people now”

Question 13

Sheila

Answer 13

“He inspected us all right.”

Question 14

Sheila

Answer 14

“It frightens me the way you talk”

Question 15

Inspector on Eva Smith/Daisy Renton

Answer 15

“Two hours ago a young woman died in the Infirmary. She’d been taken there this afternoon because she’d swallowed a lot of strong disinfectant. Burnt her inside out, of course”

Question 16

Mr B on Eva Smith/Daisy Renton

Answer 16

“Now – about this girl, Eva Smith. I remember her quite well now. She was a lively good-looking girl – country-bred, I fancy – and she’d been working in one of our shops for over a year. A good worker too.”

Question 17

Sheila on Eva Smith

Answer 17

“She was a very pretty girl…that didn’t make it any better.”

Question 18

Inspector on Eva Smith

Answer 18

“…and died, after several hours of agony…”

Question 19

Gerald on Daisy Renton

Answer 19

“She was young and pretty and warm-hearted- and intensely grateful. I became at once the most important person in her life- you understand?”

Question 20

Mrs B on Eva Smith

Answer 20

“She was giving herself ridiculous airs…claiming elaborate fine feelings…that were simply absurd in a girl in her position.”

Question 21

Mrs B on Eva Smith

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Eric on Daisy Renton

Answer 22

“I wasn’t in love with her or anything- but I liked her- she was pretty and a good sport-”

Question 23

Eric on Daisy Renton

Answer 23

“she didn’t want me to marry her. Said I didn’t love her- and all that. In a way, she treated me- as if I were a kid. Though I was nearly as old as she was.”

Question 24

Sheila on Eric with Daisy Renton

Answer 24

“Just used her for the end of a stupid drunken evening, as if she was an animal, a thing, not a person.”

Question 25

Inspector on Eva Smith

Answer 25

“But remember this. One Eva Smith has gone- but there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us, with their lives, their hopes and fears, their suffering and chance of happiness, all intertwined with our lives, and what we think and say and do.”

Question 26

Eric

Answer 26

In his early twenties, not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive

Question 27

Eric

Answer 27

Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages? We try for the highest possible prices

Question 28

Eric

Answer 28

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

Question 29

Eric

Answer 29

He could have kept her on instead of throwing her out. I call it tough luck

Question 30

Eric

Answer 30

I’d have let her stay

Question 31

Eric

Answer 31

Well I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty- and I threatened to make a row

Question 32

Eric

Answer 32

And that’s when it happened. And I don’t even remember- that’s the hellish thing

Question 33

Eric

Answer 33

I wasn’t in love with her or anything- but I liked her- she was pretty and a good sport-

Question 34

Eric

Answer 34

she didn’t want me to marry her. Said I didn’t love her- and all that. In a way, she treated me- as if I were a kid. Though I was nearly as old as she was

Question 35

Eric

Answer 35

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

Question 36

Eric

Answer 36

Then- you killed her. She came to you to protect me- and you turned her away-yes, and you killed her-and the child she’d have had too- my child- your own grandchild- you killed them both- damn you, damn you-

Question 37

Eric

Answer 37

He was our police inspector all right

Question 38

Eric

Answer 38

(shouting) And I say the girl’s dead and we all helped to kill her- and that’s what matters-

Question 39

Inspector Goole

Answer 39

It’s better to ask for the earth than to take it

Question 40

Inspector

Answer 40

There are a lot of young women... if there weren’t the factories and warehouses wouldn’t know where to look for cheap labour. Ask your father

Question 41

Inspector

Answer 41

Sometimes, there isn’t as much difference as you think ... I wouldn’t know where to draw the line

Question 42

Inspector

Answer 42

You were annoyed with yourself and passed the annoyance onto her

Question 43

Inspector

Answer 43

She wanted to keep this youngster out of any more trouble – isn’t that so?

Question 44

Inspector

Answer 44

You’re offering the money at the wrong time, Mr Birling

Question 45

Inspector

Answer 45

One Eva Smith has gone... but there are millions... of Eva Smiths... all intertwined with our lives... if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish

Question 46

Inspector

Answer 46

an impression of massiveness, solidarity and purposefulness

Question 47

Gerald Croft

Answer 47

And I’ve told you – I was awfully busy at the works all that time

Question 48

Gerald

Answer 48

I didn’t install her there so I could make love to her... I was sorry for her

Question 49

Gerald

Answer 49

She told me she’d been happier than she’d ever been before

Question 50

Gerald

Answer 50

Everything’s alright now sheila, what about this ring?