An Inspector Calls - Act 1 Exam
Questions and Answers 100% Pass
The general effect is substantial and heavily comfortable, but not - ✔✔cosy and
homelike (AO2 - Stage direction)
lighting should be pink and intimate until the Inspector arrives, and then it should be -
✔✔brighter and harder (AO2 - Stage Lighting for affect)
a heavy-looking, rather portentous man - ✔✔...with fairly easy manners but rather
provincial in his speech (Mr Birling - AO2 Stage direction)
a rather cold woman and her husband's - ✔✔social superior (Mrs Birling - Social class)
a pretty, young - ✔✔girl (Sheila)
very much the easy well-bred - ✔✔young man-about-town (Gerald Croft - AO2
revealing character through stage direction)
half shy, - ✔✔half assertive (Eric Birling )
we may look forward to the time, when Crofts and Birlings are no longer competing but
are working together - for - ✔✔lower costs and higher prices (Mr Birling - capitalist
ideals)
Oh - Gerald - you've got it - - ✔✔is it the one you wanted me to have? (Sheila - material
beauty. Symbol of wealth)
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, There's a good deal of - ✔✔silly talk (Mr Birling - language highlights his ignorance
AO2) it is ironic because the 'silly talk' comes true
I speak as a hard-headed - ✔✔business man, who has to take risks and know what he's
about (Mr Birling - capitalism)
you'll hear some people say that war's inevitable. And to that I say - - ✔✔fiddlsticks!
(Mr Birling - language reinforcing the ironic nature of his speech AO2)
New York in five days - and every luxury - - ✔✔and unsinkable - absolutely unsinkable
(Mr Birling) - dramatic irony AO2 - the audience know that the Titanic sank
There'll be peace and prosperity and rapid - ✔✔progress everywhere (Mr Birling)
Dramatic Irony AO2
assured me it's the - ✔✔exactly the same port your father buys from him (Birling Desire
to be social equal)
there's a fair chance that I might find my way - ✔✔into the next Honour's list. Just a
knighthood, of course. (Mr Birling - social class )
clothes mean something quite different - ✔✔to a woman...Women are potty about 'em.
(Mr Birling- language reflects attitudes to women AO2)
a man has to make his own way - - ✔✔has to look after himself - and his family too, of
course (Mr Birling - statement that conflicts with Priestley view of society - forshadows)
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 (Mr
Birling)
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Questions and Answers 100% Pass
The general effect is substantial and heavily comfortable, but not - ✔✔cosy and
homelike (AO2 - Stage direction)
lighting should be pink and intimate until the Inspector arrives, and then it should be -
✔✔brighter and harder (AO2 - Stage Lighting for affect)
a heavy-looking, rather portentous man - ✔✔...with fairly easy manners but rather
provincial in his speech (Mr Birling - AO2 Stage direction)
a rather cold woman and her husband's - ✔✔social superior (Mrs Birling - Social class)
a pretty, young - ✔✔girl (Sheila)
very much the easy well-bred - ✔✔young man-about-town (Gerald Croft - AO2
revealing character through stage direction)
half shy, - ✔✔half assertive (Eric Birling )
we may look forward to the time, when Crofts and Birlings are no longer competing but
are working together - for - ✔✔lower costs and higher prices (Mr Birling - capitalist
ideals)
Oh - Gerald - you've got it - - ✔✔is it the one you wanted me to have? (Sheila - material
beauty. Symbol of wealth)
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, There's a good deal of - ✔✔silly talk (Mr Birling - language highlights his ignorance
AO2) it is ironic because the 'silly talk' comes true
I speak as a hard-headed - ✔✔business man, who has to take risks and know what he's
about (Mr Birling - capitalism)
you'll hear some people say that war's inevitable. And to that I say - - ✔✔fiddlsticks!
(Mr Birling - language reinforcing the ironic nature of his speech AO2)
New York in five days - and every luxury - - ✔✔and unsinkable - absolutely unsinkable
(Mr Birling) - dramatic irony AO2 - the audience know that the Titanic sank
There'll be peace and prosperity and rapid - ✔✔progress everywhere (Mr Birling)
Dramatic Irony AO2
assured me it's the - ✔✔exactly the same port your father buys from him (Birling Desire
to be social equal)
there's a fair chance that I might find my way - ✔✔into the next Honour's list. Just a
knighthood, of course. (Mr Birling - social class )
clothes mean something quite different - ✔✔to a woman...Women are potty about 'em.
(Mr Birling- language reflects attitudes to women AO2)
a man has to make his own way - - ✔✔has to look after himself - and his family too, of
course (Mr Birling - statement that conflicts with Priestley view of society - forshadows)
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 (Mr
Birling)
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