An Inspector calls

Question 1

“[Arthur Birling is a heavy-looking, rather portentous man in his middle fifties with fairly easy manners but rather provincial in speech. His wife about fifty, a rather cold woman and her husband’s social superior]”

Answer 1

Act 1

Question 2

“She’ll make you happy, and I’m sure you’ll make her happy”

Answer 2

Act 1
-Mr Birling

Question 3

“He’s been steadily drinking too much for the past two years”

Answer 3

Act 2
Sheila

Question 4

“Unlike the other three, I did nothing I’m ashamed of”

Answer 4

Act 1
Mrs Birling

Question 5

“Burnt her inside out… she was in great agony”

Answer 5

Act 1
Inspector

Question 6

“We look forward to the time when Crofts and Birlings are no longer competing but are working together- for lower costs and higher prices”

Answer 6

Act 1
-Mr Birling

Question 7

“And I know I’m to blame – and I’m desperately sorry”

Answer 7

Act 2
Sheila

Question 8

“I have an idea that your mother- Lady Croft- while she doesn’t object to my girl- feels you might have done better for yourself socially”

Answer 8

Act 1
-Mr Birling

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Act 2
Sheila

Question 10

“But the way some of these cranks talk and write now, 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 10

Act 1
-Mr Birling

Question 11

“But take my word for it, you youngsters- and I’ve learnt in the good hard school of experience”

Answer 11

Act 1
-Mr Birling

Question 12

“The INSPECTOR need not to be a big man but he creates at once an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness]”

Answer 12

Act 1
-Mr Birling

Question 13

“But after all it’s better to ask for the world than to take it”

Answer 13

-Inspector
-Act 1
-Theme= responsibility and how the Birling family are selfish.

Question 14

“Rubbish if you don’t come down sharply on some of these people, they’d soon be asking for the world”.

Question 15

“Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibility as well as privileges”.

Answer 15

-Inspector

Question 16

“I think you did something terribly wrong- and that you’re going to spend the rest of your life regretting it”.

Answer 16

-Inspector

Question 17

” Each of you helped to kill her. Remember that. Never forget it”.

Answer 17

-Inspector

Question 18

“There are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us”.

Answer 18

-Inspector

Question 19

“We don’t live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other”.

Answer 19

-Inspector

Question 20

“If men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught in fire, blood and anguish”.

Answer 20

-Inspector

Question 21

“Hard-headed businessman”.

Answer 21

Mr Birling

Question 22

“I’m sorry Daddy, she looks attentively”.

Answer 22

Sheila

Question 23

“Just because the miners came out on strike, there’s a lot of wild talk about possible labour trouble in the near future”.

Answer 23

Mr Birling

Question 24

“But these girls aren’t cheap labour, they are people”.

Answer 24

Sheila

Question 25

"I'm sorry she should have come to such a horrible end, but I accept no blame for it at all"

Answer 25

Mr Birling

Question 26

"I suppose we are all nice people now".

Answer 26

Sheila

Question 27

"The famous younger generation who know it all".

Answer 27

Mr Birling

Question 28

"If there's nothing else, we will have to share our guilt".

Answer 28

Inspector

Question 29

"We don't live alone, we are members of one body"

Answer 29

Mr Birling

Question 30

"Yes but you can't now, she's dead"

Answer 30

Inspector

Question 31

“I blame the young man who was the father of the child”

Answer 31

Mrs Birling

Question 32

“It’s my duty to keep labour costs down”

Answer 32

Mr Birling

Question 33

“She didn’t want me to marry her… In a way, she treated me as if I were a kid”

Answer 33

Eric

Question 34

“… unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable”

Answer 34

Mr Birling

Question 35

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

Answer 35

Sheila

Question 36

“He could have kept her on instead of throwing her out”

Answer 36

Eric

Question 37

“It’s what happened to the girl and what we all did to her that matters”

Answer 37

Eric

Question 38

“…each of you helped to kill her. Remember that. Never forget it”

Answer 38

Inspector

Question 39

"Just because the miners came out on strike, there's a lot of wild talk about the possible labour troubles".

Answer 39

Mr Biring

Question 40

“She felt there’d never be anything as good again for her”

Answer 40

Inspector

Question 41

“You’ll be able to divide the responsibility between you when I’ve gone”

Answer 41

Inspector

Question 42

“Everything’s all right now, Sheila. What about this ring?”

Answer 42

Gerald

Question 43

“Unlike the other three, I did nothing I’m ashamed of”

Answer 43

Mrs Birling

Question 44

“Go and look for the father of the child. It’s his responsibility”

Answer 44

Mrs Birling

Question 45

“You’re beginning to pretend all over again that nothing much has happened”

Answer 45

Sheila

Question 46

“I didn’t install here there so that I could make love to her”

Answer 46

Gerald

Question 47

“But you can't. It's too late. She's dead.”

Answer 47

Eric

Question 48

"She was pretty and a good sport"

Answer 48

Eric

Question 49

"Cry for help"

Answer 49

Gerald about Eva

Question 50

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

Answer 50

Mrs Birling

Question 51

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

Answer 51

Eric

Question 52

"She was very pretty- soft brown hair and big dark eyes"

Answer 52

Gerald