mr birling key quotes

Question 1

“you hear some people say [1] is inevitable… [2]! Silly little war scares.”

Answer 1

[1] - war
[2] - fiddlesticks

Question 2

“The titanic - [1], absolutely unsinkable.”

Answer 2

[1] - unsinkable

Question 3

“I gather there’s a very good chance of a [1].”

Answer 3

[1] - knighthood

Question 4

“We were paying the [1] rates and if they didn’t like those rates, they could go and work [2] else.”

Answer 4

[1] - usual
[2] - somewhere

Question 5

“A man has to make his own way - has to look after [1] - and his [2] too, of course.”

Answer 5

[1] - himself
[2] - family

Question 6

“(rather [1]) [2] business. But I don’t [3] why you should come here.”

Answer 6

[1] - impatiently
[2] - horrid
[3] - understand

Question 7

“You’d think [1] has to look after everybody else, as if we were all [2] up like [3] in a [4] - [5] and all that nonsense.”

Answer 7

[1] - everybody
[2] - mixed
[3] - bees
[4] - hive
[5] - community

Question 8

“there’s every [1] for what your mother and I did.”

Answer 8

[1] - excuse

Question 9

“You’re the one I [1] for this… There’ll be a public [2]…”

Answer 9

[1] - blame
[2] - scandal

Question 10

“Now look at the pair of them- the famous [1] generation who [2] it all. And they can’t even take a [3].”

Answer 10

[1] - younger
[2] - know
[3] - joke

Question 11

“…Broke out and had a bit of [1] sometimes…”

Answer 11

[1] - fun

Question 12

*“Arthur Birling is heavy-looking, in his middle fifties, rather [1] man with fairly [2] manners but rather [3] in [4].”

*(quote from stage directions).

Answer 12

[1] - portentious
[2] easy
[3] - provincial
[4] - speech

Question 13

*“…for [1] costs and higher prices.”

*(quote from capitalistic dinner toast).

Answer 13

[1] - lower

Question 14

“…and I’m talking as a [1], practical man of business.”

Answer 14

[1] - hard-headed