Inspector Calls

Question 1

Unsinkable

Answer 1

Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable
Mr Birling

Question 2

Bees

Answer 2

As if we were all mixed up like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense
Mr Birling

Question 3

Earth

Answer 3

It’s better to ask for the earth than to take it
Inspector

Question 4

Cheap

Answer 4

These girls aren’t cheap labour, they’re people
Sheila

Question 5

Rotten

Answer 5

I felt rotten about it at the time and now I feel a lot worse
Sheila

Question 6

Sorry

Answer 6

I know I’m to blame and I’m desperately sorry
Sheila

Question 7

Impressionable

Answer 7

We often do on the young ones they’re more impressionable
Inspector

Question 8

Class

Answer 8

Girls of that class
Mrs Birling

Question 9

Felt

Answer 9

I didn’t feel about her as she felt about me
Gerald

Question 10

Impertinently

Answer 10

I didn’t like her manner, she’d impertinently made use of our name
Mrs Birling

Question 11

Ashamed

Answer 11

I did nothing I’m ashamed of
Mrs Birling

Question 12

Blame

Answer 12

I blame the young man, he ought to be dealt with very severely
Mrs Birling

Question 13

Hushing

Answer 13

No hushing up, eh
Inspector

Question 14

Chap

Answer 14

You’re not the kind of father a chap can go to when he’s in trouble
Eric

Question 15

Millions

Answer 15

Millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths left with us
Inspector

Question 16

Members

Answer 16

We are members of one body
Inspector

Question 17

Anguish

Answer 17

The time will soon come when, if man won’t learn that lesson, he will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish
Inspector

Question 18

Pretend

Answer 18

You’re beginning to pretend as if nothing’s really happened at all
Sheila

Question 19

Frightens

Answer 19

It frightens me the way you talk
Sheila