An Inspector Calls

Question 1

When was inspector calls written?

Answer 1

1945

Question 2

Opening sentence?

Answer 2

In Priestley’s didactic morality play

Question 3

When is the story set

Answer 3

1912

Question 4

Who made inspector calls

Answer 4

Priestley

Question 5

Dramatic irony

Answer 5

When the audience knows something that the characters don’t

Question 6

Debonair

Answer 6

Confident and stylish (could be used to describe Gerald)

Question 7

How to use this in a sentence

Answer 7

‘We can see there is a debonair atmosphere crafted around Gerlad’

Question 8

Link this

Answer 8

This debonair presentation is a result of his aristocratic backround

Question 9

Excoriates

Answer 9

Criticises in a severe way (Priestley criticises the upper class and people in power through an inspector calls)

Question 10

Petulant

Answer 10

Very immature (can be used to describe Sheila during the introduction)

Question 11

Key theme

Answer 11

Social consciousness and responsibility

Question 12

Who are the character

Answer 12

Gerald
Arthur Birling
Sybil Birling
Sheila
Eric

Question 13

Who commited suicide with disinfectant

Answer 13

Eva Smith

Question 14

Why did Sheila get Eva fired from her job as a shopping assistant

Answer 14

Because she thought that she was laughing at her

Question 15

Four main themes

Answer 15

Class
Age
Gender
Social responsibility

Question 16

When was it first performed

Answer 16

1946

Question 17

Mouth piece

Answer 17

A character or person that shows somebody else’s views.

Question 18

Who is a mouth piece in AIC

Answer 18

The inspector

Question 19

Why?

Answer 19

He illustrates to the audience and the Birlings the importance of being socially responsible and the eradication of corrupt capitalist views in society

Question 20

Word for Eric?

Answer 20

Sardonic

Question 21

What does sardonic mean

Answer 21

Mocking towards something or cynical

Question 22

How is this portrayed through Eric

Answer 22

We see Eric becoming increasingly sardonic, as he questions the ethics of the capitalistic views that his father potrays by the dehumanising ways that the middle and upper class treat the lower class. This is shown when he states ‘why shouldn’t they try for the highest wages, as we try for the highest possible prices’

Question 23

Disenfranchised

Answer 23

Not having the right to vote (Sheila) Sheila is a microcosm for all the 1912 women who lacked any power in society, and were confined due to their gender

Question 24

Infantile

Answer 24

Sheila is infantile due to the protection of Sheila from Sybil and arther Birling from the outside world. This helps them indoctrinate her with capitalist ideology

Question 25

Mr Birling/Mrs Birling

Answer 25

Refuses to forsake his conservative principles, as greed and egotism drives his desire to further push his capitalist ideas

Question 26

Quote to support

Answer 26

He’s using his daughter’s engagement to push ‘lower costs and higher prices’

Question 27

Why?

Answer 27

Mr Birling is indifferent to the precept to how increasing prices could possibly effect lower class citizens

Question 28

Quote

Answer 28

‘I think it’s a shame - we aim for the highest profits, why not the highest wages’

Question 29

What does this show

Answer 29

The juxtaposition between Mr Birlings ‘higher prices and lower wages’ between Eric’s ‘higher profits and higher wages’ presents Eric as a proxy of the inspector

Question 30

Priestley’s message

Answer 30

Priestley is telling women that women are deserving of the right to vote

Question 31

Priestley hints

Answer 31

That Eric and the rest of the younger generation did not learn from their error and damage that they’ve caused - lead to the second world war

Question 32

Eva Smith’s death

Answer 32

‘fire blood and anguish’ - the semantic field of grief and pain connotes war, which the 1912 capitalist government had lead to occuring

Question 33

The failure..

Answer 33

The failure from the younger generation to learn from the previous generations mistakes, inevitably caused the 2nd world war to occur

Question 34

Dichotomy

Answer 34

Things that contrast eachother (peace and war) like the inspector and Arthur Birling

Question 35

Proletariat

Answer 35

The working class

Question 36

‘A man has to make his way’

Answer 36

Mr Birling

Question 37

‘own’

Answer 37

Connotes Arthur’s individualism and self gain

Question 38

‘young and fresh’

Answer 38

Fresh has connotations of purity and fertility