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Question 1

Inspector guilt quote

Answer 1

“You see, we have to share something. If there’s nothing else, we’ll have to share our guilt.”

Question 2

Inspector responsibility quote

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Inspector collective responsibility quote

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Birling captialism quote

Answer 4

“Working together for lower costs and higher prices”

Question 5

Birling narcissistic quote

Answer 5

“I can’t accept any responsibility. It would be very awkward”

Question 6

Birling self-centred quote

Answer 6

“But coming like that, bang on top of our little celebration”

Question 7

Mrs birling tells sheila off quote

Answer 7

“Really, the things you girls pick up these days”

Question 8

Mrs birling denial quote

Answer 8

“Simply a piece of gross impertinence … naturally that prejudiced me against her case”

Question 9

Mrs birling responsibility quote

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Gerald denial quote

Answer 10

“I don’t come into this suicide business”

Question 11

Gerald blame quote

Answer 11

“She didn’t blame me at all. I wish to God she had now”

Question 12

Gerald focusses on marriage quote

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Sheila lack of responsibility quote

Answer 13

“But she was very pretty and looked as if she could take care of herself. I couldn’t be sorry father”

Question 14

Sheila takes responsibility quote

Answer 14

“I’ll never, never do it again to anybody”

Question 15

Sheila feels sorry quote

Answer 15

“Mother, she’s just died a horrible death, don’t forget”

Question 16

Eric compassionate quote

Answer 16

“I don’t see why she should have been sacked .. I’d have let her stay”

Question 17

Eric lashes out at Birling

Answer 17

“Because you’re not the sort of father a chap could go to when he’s in trouble, that’s why”

Question 18

Eric responsibility quote

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Birling dramatic irony

Answer 19

“We’re in for a time of steadily increasing prosperity”
“When you marry, you’ll be marrying at a good time”
“I say there isn’t a chance of war”

Question 20

Sheila describes Gerald

Answer 20

“Stupid” “guilty” “fool”

Question 21

Mrs birling lacks sympathy

Answer 21

“I’m glad to hear it”
“Triumphantly (stage direction)” implies she thinks she has won

Question 22

Inspector final speech responsibility

Answer 22

“We are members of one body”
“We are responsible for each other”

Question 23

Birling is an insecure social climber

Answer 23

“You may have done better for yourself socially”

Question 24

Birling lack of responsibility

Answer 24

Describes the idea of community as “nonsense”

Question 25

Birling looks down on the younger generation

Answer 25

Sarcastic quote "famous younger generation" "can't take a joke"

Question 26

Eric justifies being drunk

Answer 26

"I was in that state where a chap easily turns nasty"

Question 27

Eric realises that she is dead quote

Answer 27

"You killed her and the child she'd have had too"

Question 28

Eric knows that his parents think nothing is wrong

Answer 28

"You're beginning to pretend now that nothing's really happened at all. And I can't see it like that. The girl's still dead, isn't she?"

Question 29

Gerald is a snob quote

Answer 29

"We're respectable citizens and not dangerous animals"

Question 30

Gerald describes another prominent member of society

Answer 30

"Old Joe Meggarty, half-drunk and goggle-eyed, had wedged her into a corner with that obscene fat carcass of his"

Question 31

Gerald speaks like he was the hero

Answer 31

Says that Eva was "intensely grateful"

Question 32

Inspector Goole describes Eva

Answer 32

"A nice little promising life there, I thought, and a nasty mess somebody's made of it"

Question 33

Inspector describes Eva's situation

Answer 33

"She was here alone, friendless, almost penniless, desperate. She needed not only money, but advice, sympathy, friendliness."

Question 34

Inspector gives the Birlings advice

Answer 34

"We are members of one body." "If men will not learn their lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish."

Question 35

Sheila stands up for the girls

Answer 35

"Those girls aren't cheap labour - they're people."

Question 36

Sheila shirks responsibility

Answer 36

"How could I know what would happen afterwards?"

Question 37

Sheila takes responsibility

Answer 37

"I'm to blame and I'm desperately sorry"

Question 38

Mrs Birling opposes society's view of women (in a bad way)

Answer 38

"A rather cold woman" "Her husband's social superior"

Question 39

Mrs Birling looks down her nose at Eva

Answer 39

"Girls of that class"

Question 40

Mrs Birling is loyal - she sticks up for Eric

Answer 40

"He's only a boy ... it isn't time"