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