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Answer Stats
Hint Answer % Correct
Inspector I don't play golf
60%
Arthur unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable
52%
Sheila is it the one you wanted me to have?
8%
Inspector it's better to ask for the earth than to take it
8%
Arthur fiddlesticks! The Germans don't want war
6%
Arthur for lower costs and higher prices
6%
Mrs Birling very sharply
6%
Sheila these girls aren't cheap labour - they're people
6%
Sheila You're squiffy
6%
Arthur I can't accept any responsibility
4%
Sheila It frightens me the way you talk
4%
Arthur it's my duty to keep labour costs down
4%
Gerald it wasn't disgusting
4%
Edna Please, sir, an inspector's called
4%
Arthur and we're in for a time of steadily increasing prosperity
2%
Sheila he inspected us all right
2%
Mrs Birling a rather cold woman and her husband's social superior
2%
Arthur explosively
2%
Sheila stormily
2%
Sheila Mother - stop - stop!
2%
Sheila No, he's giving us the rope - so that we'll hang ourselves
2%
Arthur There'll be peace and prosperity and rapid progress everywhere
2%
Other The telephone rings sharply
2%
Mrs Birling They're over-tired
2%
Gerald we're respectable citizens and not criminals
2%
Sheila You were the wonderful Fairy Prince
2%
Inspector And you think young women ought to be protected against unpleasant and disturbing things?
0%
Mrs Birling Arthur, you're not supposed to say such things
0%
Sheila Between us we drove that girl to commit suicide
0%
Arthur don't stand there being hysterical
0%
Inspector each of you helped to kill her. Remember that. Never forget it
0%
Gerald Everything's all right now, Sheila. [...] What about this ring?
0%
Sheila except for all last summer, when you never came near me
0%
Mrs Birling from the way you children talk, you might be wanting to help him instead of us
0%
Inspector gravely
0%
Eric He was our police inspector all right
0%
Mrs Birling his manner was quite extraordinary, so - so rude - and assertive-
0%
Mrs Birling I accept no blame for it at all
0%
Gerald an attractive chap about thirty, rather too manly to be a dandy but very much the easy well-bred young man-about-town
0%
Inspector cutting in, massively
0%
Mrs Birling I did nothing I'm ashamed of or that won't bear investigation
0%
Eric I don't see much nonsense about it when a girl goes and kills herself
0%
Mrs Birling I don't think we want any further details of this disgusting affair
0%
Sheila If it didn't end tragically, then that's lucky for us
0%
Arthur If we were all responsible for everything that happened to everybody we'd had anything to do with, it would be very awkward, wouldn't it?
0%
Arthur If you don't come down sharply on some of these people, they'd soon be asking for the earth
0%
Arthur heavy looking, rather portentous man in his middle fifties with fairly easy manners but rather provincial in his speech
0%
Inspector he creates at once an impression of massiveness
0%
Inspector He speaks carefully, weightily, and has a disconcerting habit of looking hard at the person he addresses before speaking
0%
Eric not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive
0%
Inspector plain darkish suit of the period
0%
Sheila pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited
0%
Inspector sardonically
0%
Mrs Birling I think she had only herself to blame
0%
Arthur it matters a devil of a lot
0%
Sheila I've been so happy tonight. Oh I wish you hadn't told me
0%
Inspector very deliberately
0%
Eric I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty - and I threatened to make a row
0%
Inspector Just used her for the end of a stupid drunken evening, as if she was an animal, a thing, not a person
0%
Sheila laughs rather hysterically
0%
Mrs Birling make sure that he's compelled to confess in public his responsibility
0%
Mrs Birling Nothing but morbid curiosity
0%
Arthur Probably a Socialist or some sort of crank
0%
Gerald She's had a long, exciting and tiring day
0%
Mrs Birling She was claiming elaborate fine feelings and scruples that were simply absurd in a girl in her postion
0%
Mrs Birling simply a piece of gross impertinence - quite deliberate - and naturally that was one of the things that prejudiced me against her case
0%
Inspector Sometimes there isn't as much difference as you think
0%
Mrs Birling That - I consider - is a trifle impertinent, Inspector
0%
Arthur the famous younger generation who know it all. And they can't even take a joke-
0%
Eric The girl's still dead, isn't she? Nobody's brought her to life, have they?
0%
Inspector their lives, their hopes and fears, their suffering and chance of happiness, all intertwined with our lives, and what we think and say and do
0%
Inspector there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us
0%
Inspector There'll be plenty of time, when I've gone, for you all to adjust your family relationships
0%
Arthur There's every excuse for what both your mother and I did
0%
Other the sharp ring of a front door bell
0%
Inspector the time will come soon when, if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish
0%
Gerald Unless Eric's been up to something. (Nodding confidentially to Birling.) And that would be awkward wouldn't it?
0%
Inspector We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other
0%
Inspector we have to share something. If there's nothing else, we'll have to share our guilt
0%
Inspector We often do on the young ones. They're more impressionable
0%
Mrs Birling We've done a great deal of useful work in helping deserving cases
0%
Sheila wonderingly and dubiously
0%
Sheila You began to learn something. And now you've stopped
0%
Sheila you fool - he knows. Of course he knows
0%
Inspector You have no hope of not discussing it, Mrs Birling
0%
Sheila You mustn't try to build up a kind of wall between us and that girl. If you do, then the Inspector will just break it down
0%
Gerald young and pretty and warm-hearted
0%
Arthur You're just the kind of son-in-law I always wanted
0%
Eric you're not the kind of father a chap could go to when he's in trouble - that's why
0%
Arthur You're the one I blame for this
0%
Gerald You seem to be a nice well-behaved family
0%
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