An Inspector Calls Final Test: Whole-Play Quiz

An Inspector Calls Whole Play questions

The answers and an explanation for each question appear as you play, and on the answer-key page of the printout.

1. In which year is the action of the play set?
   1919 · 1945 · 1912 · 1926
2. What does an audience take from Birling's confident predictions about peace and about the great new liner?
   He is better informed than the Inspector · He has inside knowledge of politics · He is repeating what Gerald told him · He is confidently wrong about the future
3. Which name was the girl using at the time Gerald knew her?
   Daisy Renton · Daisy Smith · Eva Smith · Mrs Birling
4. Which member of the household used a committee position to block the girl's request for help?
   Sheila Birling · Sybil Birling · Gerald Croft · Arthur Birling
5. Why does the Inspector show the photograph to one person at a time?
   It hides his lack of a warrant · It protects the dead girl's relatives · It keeps each confession separate · It saves time during the inquiry
6. What best describes the generational divide Priestley builds across the play?
   Only the men feel any responsibility · The young and old blame each other alike · Everyone is relieved by the final call · The young accept blame, the old refuse it
7. Why can Birling move against the girl at his works without any consequence to himself?
   She has no money or standing at all · She has no family living in the town · She has broken the terms of her work · She has refused to join a trade union
8. Where does Gerald stand by the end of the evening?
   He refuses to speak to the Birlings · He treats the hoax as closing the matter · He admits more than anyone else does · He insists the inquiry should go on
9. Why does Priestley leave the Inspector's identity unexplained?
   To hint that Gerald invented the hoax · To show the police cannot be trusted · So his message matters more than his rank · To excuse the family of any real guilt
10. What does the last telephone call imply about the Birlings?
    The Inspector was real after all · The girl is alive and still in Brumley · The family will be arrested at once · They must face the reckoning again

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Original questions written for Pagine. This book is in copyright, so questions paraphrase rather than quote it.