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🔍 An Inspector Calls – GCSE
English · GCSE — practise characters, quotations, themes and context in Priestley's An Inspector Calls
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Questions
In which year is An Inspector Calls set?
1945
1918
1914
1912
20s
Mr Birling calls the Titanic "unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable". What technique is Priestley using?
Pathetic fallacy
Dramatic irony
Personification
Foreshadowing through stage directions
20s
Why did Mr Birling sack Eva Smith from his factory?
She was caught stealing money from the office
She kept arriving late for her shifts
She was a ringleader of a strike for higher wages
She was rude to his daughter in a shop
20s
Why did Sheila have Eva Smith dismissed from Milwards department store?
She thought Eva had smiled at her trying on a dress
She heard Eva insult her mother
She saw Eva take a dress without paying
She caught Eva flirting with Gerald in the shop
30s
What name was Eva Smith using when Gerald met her in the bar of the Palace Variety Theatre?
Daisy Renton
Mrs Birling
Daisy Smith
Eva Renton
30s
Who says, "We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other"?
Inspector Goole
Sheila Birling
Eric Birling
Gerald Croft
30s
Mrs Birling insists the father of Eva's baby should be "made an example of". Why is this dramatically ironic?
The audience suspects Eva was never pregnant
The audience suspects Gerald is the father
The audience suspects the father is her husband
The audience suspects the father is her own son, Eric
30s
Why did Priestley set the play in 1912 but write it for an audience in 1945?
Because the real Eva Smith died in 1912
Because plays could not be set in wartime in 1945
So the audience would feel nostalgic for Edwardian times
So the audience could see Birling's predictions were wrong
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Which characters accept their responsibility by the end, showing Priestley's hope in the younger generation?
Mr and Mrs Birling
Sheila and Eric
Eric and Gerald
Sheila and Gerald
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What does the telephone call at the very end of the play reveal?
Mr Birling has been given his knighthood
Inspector Goole has been arrested for fraud
Eva Smith is alive and living in Brumley
A girl has just died and an inspector is on his way
30s