AIC QUOTES QUESTIONS WITH
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pink and intimate... then it should be brighter and harder - ANS-Lighting until Inspector (stage
direction): family sees world through rose tinted glasses; inspectors will expose, interrogate and
reveal
a pretty girl... very pleased with life and rather excited - ANS-Sheila initial stage direction:
society judges by appearance; inexperienced, sheltered, childish, naive, no problem with
lifestyle
easy well-bred young man-about-town - ANS-Gerald initial stage direction: educated, high
class, experienced in world
rather too manly to be a dandy - ANS-Gerald initial stage direction (2): masculine character;
more practical and authoritative
not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive - ANS-Eric initial stage direction: uncomfortable even
with family - doesn't know his place; unsure of himself, nervous
pleased with themselves - ANS-Initial description of all: gloating, proud, smug,
self-congratulating
Exactly the same port your father gets - ANS-Birling on port (A1): proving point of class - can
buy the same as aristocracy - social inferiority
(Half serious, half playful) Yes - except for all last summer, when you never came near me -
ANS-Sheila about Gerald in the summer (A1): stage direction: tone implies suspicion, gender
imbalance and class difference - affects who confronts who - creates tension; quote: tension -
feels reproachful - aspect of secrecy + concealment in family
When you're married you'll realise that men with important work to do sometimes have to spend
nearly all their time and energy on their business - ANS-Mrs Birling on marriage (A1): tries to
soften blow - sense of maternal love; accepted behaviour of men - gender imbalance -
out-dated upbringing; social climbing aspirations - wants wedding to go ahead to uphold familial
reputation - ironic as it's what I breaks; foreshadows what I brings up
, It's a pity Sir George and - er - Lady Croft can't be with us - ANS-Birling on Gerald's parents
(A1): unwilling to show real feelings about being snubbed by upper classes - vital class system;
possible tension - crofts perhaps disapprove ?
Crofts and Birlings are no longer competing but are working together - for lower costs and
higher prices - ANS-Birling 'costs' toast (A1): social climbing aspirations; objectification of
Sheila - women as commodities; motivated by profit - capitalist mindset and values
Oh - it's wonderful! Look - Mummy - isn't it a beauty? - ANS-Sheila about her ring (A1)
Just let me finish, Eric. You've a lot to learn yet - ANS-Birling to Eric (A1): openly disrespectful,
degrading, emasculating, embarrassing; patronising attitude - dynamic of tension
hard-headed, practical man of business - ANS-Birling businessman (A1): his identity; alliterating
'h' for emphatic resonance; element of gloating, stubborn, impervious, cold, impenetrable
mindset
unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable - ANS-Birling titanic (A1): dramatic irony - Titanic did sink -
undermines capitalist mindset to audience
forgotten all these Capital versus Labour agitations - ANS-Birling politics scare (A1): dramatic
irony - Clement Atlee of Labour voted in as PM - Priestley mocks capitalist values
silly little war scares - ANS-Birlings war view (A1): dramatic irony - about to undergo 2 world
wars - shows weakness and idiocy of capitalist mindset
peace and prosperity and rapid progress everywhere - ANS-Birlings view on future (A1):
dramatic irony - world wars lead to economic decline - humiliates Birling - degrades capitalist
mentality
We can't let all these Bernard Shaws and H G Wellses do all the talking. We hard-headed
practical business men must say something sometime. And we don't guess - we've had
experience - and we know - ANS-Birling on socialists and talking (A1): dismissive of them and
welfare state - Priestly supported - mocking socialism; collective noun - identifies with other
business men; tricolon - rhetorical and political feel
a sign or token of their self respect - ANS-Birling on women's clothes (A1): women who can't
afford nice clothes don't have self respect - contempt from women in audience; out-dated belief
that clothes represent women - men only care about looks and dress - shallow
Mixed up together like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense - ANS-Birling on
community (A1): disassociation through simile; degrades socialist mindset - causes audience
dislike
CORRECT ANSWERS 2025/2026 A+
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pink and intimate... then it should be brighter and harder - ANS-Lighting until Inspector (stage
direction): family sees world through rose tinted glasses; inspectors will expose, interrogate and
reveal
a pretty girl... very pleased with life and rather excited - ANS-Sheila initial stage direction:
society judges by appearance; inexperienced, sheltered, childish, naive, no problem with
lifestyle
easy well-bred young man-about-town - ANS-Gerald initial stage direction: educated, high
class, experienced in world
rather too manly to be a dandy - ANS-Gerald initial stage direction (2): masculine character;
more practical and authoritative
not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive - ANS-Eric initial stage direction: uncomfortable even
with family - doesn't know his place; unsure of himself, nervous
pleased with themselves - ANS-Initial description of all: gloating, proud, smug,
self-congratulating
Exactly the same port your father gets - ANS-Birling on port (A1): proving point of class - can
buy the same as aristocracy - social inferiority
(Half serious, half playful) Yes - except for all last summer, when you never came near me -
ANS-Sheila about Gerald in the summer (A1): stage direction: tone implies suspicion, gender
imbalance and class difference - affects who confronts who - creates tension; quote: tension -
feels reproachful - aspect of secrecy + concealment in family
When you're married you'll realise that men with important work to do sometimes have to spend
nearly all their time and energy on their business - ANS-Mrs Birling on marriage (A1): tries to
soften blow - sense of maternal love; accepted behaviour of men - gender imbalance -
out-dated upbringing; social climbing aspirations - wants wedding to go ahead to uphold familial
reputation - ironic as it's what I breaks; foreshadows what I brings up
, It's a pity Sir George and - er - Lady Croft can't be with us - ANS-Birling on Gerald's parents
(A1): unwilling to show real feelings about being snubbed by upper classes - vital class system;
possible tension - crofts perhaps disapprove ?
Crofts and Birlings are no longer competing but are working together - for lower costs and
higher prices - ANS-Birling 'costs' toast (A1): social climbing aspirations; objectification of
Sheila - women as commodities; motivated by profit - capitalist mindset and values
Oh - it's wonderful! Look - Mummy - isn't it a beauty? - ANS-Sheila about her ring (A1)
Just let me finish, Eric. You've a lot to learn yet - ANS-Birling to Eric (A1): openly disrespectful,
degrading, emasculating, embarrassing; patronising attitude - dynamic of tension
hard-headed, practical man of business - ANS-Birling businessman (A1): his identity; alliterating
'h' for emphatic resonance; element of gloating, stubborn, impervious, cold, impenetrable
mindset
unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable - ANS-Birling titanic (A1): dramatic irony - Titanic did sink -
undermines capitalist mindset to audience
forgotten all these Capital versus Labour agitations - ANS-Birling politics scare (A1): dramatic
irony - Clement Atlee of Labour voted in as PM - Priestley mocks capitalist values
silly little war scares - ANS-Birlings war view (A1): dramatic irony - about to undergo 2 world
wars - shows weakness and idiocy of capitalist mindset
peace and prosperity and rapid progress everywhere - ANS-Birlings view on future (A1):
dramatic irony - world wars lead to economic decline - humiliates Birling - degrades capitalist
mentality
We can't let all these Bernard Shaws and H G Wellses do all the talking. We hard-headed
practical business men must say something sometime. And we don't guess - we've had
experience - and we know - ANS-Birling on socialists and talking (A1): dismissive of them and
welfare state - Priestly supported - mocking socialism; collective noun - identifies with other
business men; tricolon - rhetorical and political feel
a sign or token of their self respect - ANS-Birling on women's clothes (A1): women who can't
afford nice clothes don't have self respect - contempt from women in audience; out-dated belief
that clothes represent women - men only care about looks and dress - shallow
Mixed up together like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense - ANS-Birling on
community (A1): disassociation through simile; degrades socialist mindset - causes audience
dislike
