AIC QUOTES QUESTIONS WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTION 2025/2026
ALREADY GRADED A+
"The lighting should be pink and intimate until the inspector arrives, and then it should be
brighter and harder" - ANS-initial lighting stage directions
"ARTHUR BIRLING is a heavy looking, rather portentous man" - ANS-initial stage directions-
mr birling
"his wife... a rather cold woman and her husband's social superior" - ANS-initial stage
directions- mrs birling
"Sheila... very pleased with life and rather excited" - ANS-initial stage direction- sheila
"Eric... not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive" - ANS-initial stage directions- eric
Birling: (opening line): Giving us the port, Edna? That's right. - ANS-the opening line of the play,
immediately establishing the power mr birling has over edna/ the lower classes
[Eric suddenly guffaws] - ANS-eric being shown as childish and not put together (stage
direction)
Birling: Crofts limited are both older and bigger than Birling and Company... look forward to the
time... [they] are woking together for lower costs and higher prices. - ANS-crofts vs birling co,
capitalist message/ intent for the marriage
Sheila: [taking out the ring]... Look- mummy- isn't it a beauty? Oh- darling-.... [admiringly] -
ANS-sheila being childish and materialistic towards the engagement ring
Birling: The germans dont want war... i'm talking as a hard headed, practical man of business...
the titanic... unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable... in 1940... there'll be peace and prosperity and
rapid progress everywhere... - ANS-mr birling being presented as a fool
Birling: i was lord mayor... when royalty visited... theres a very good chance of a
knighthood...[if].. dont get into the police... - ANS-mr birling flexing his assumption of a
knighthood
COMPLETE SOLUTION 2025/2026
ALREADY GRADED A+
"The lighting should be pink and intimate until the inspector arrives, and then it should be
brighter and harder" - ANS-initial lighting stage directions
"ARTHUR BIRLING is a heavy looking, rather portentous man" - ANS-initial stage directions-
mr birling
"his wife... a rather cold woman and her husband's social superior" - ANS-initial stage
directions- mrs birling
"Sheila... very pleased with life and rather excited" - ANS-initial stage direction- sheila
"Eric... not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive" - ANS-initial stage directions- eric
Birling: (opening line): Giving us the port, Edna? That's right. - ANS-the opening line of the play,
immediately establishing the power mr birling has over edna/ the lower classes
[Eric suddenly guffaws] - ANS-eric being shown as childish and not put together (stage
direction)
Birling: Crofts limited are both older and bigger than Birling and Company... look forward to the
time... [they] are woking together for lower costs and higher prices. - ANS-crofts vs birling co,
capitalist message/ intent for the marriage
Sheila: [taking out the ring]... Look- mummy- isn't it a beauty? Oh- darling-.... [admiringly] -
ANS-sheila being childish and materialistic towards the engagement ring
Birling: The germans dont want war... i'm talking as a hard headed, practical man of business...
the titanic... unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable... in 1940... there'll be peace and prosperity and
rapid progress everywhere... - ANS-mr birling being presented as a fool
Birling: i was lord mayor... when royalty visited... theres a very good chance of a
knighthood...[if].. dont get into the police... - ANS-mr birling flexing his assumption of a
knighthood
