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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much time passes between the night Eric and Mrs. Birling met and the second time he saw her?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 2 months.
(c) No time.
(d) 2 weeks.

2. Why does Sybil say she was upset?
(a) Because Eric has a drinking problem.
(b) Because Gerald and Sheila broke off their engagement.
(c) Because Inspector Goole frightened her.
(d) Because Eric had left the house.

3. Who does Inspector Goole say started Eva Smith’s demise?
(a) Sybil.
(b) Sheila.
(c) Eric.
(d) Arthur.

4. How does Inspector Goole say he knows what Daisy Renton did after Gerald broke up with her?
(a) Gerald told him.
(b) She told him.
(c) She kept a diary.
(d) It was published in the newspaper.

5. Who does Arthur blame for the situation?
(a) Gerald.
(b) Sybil.
(c) Sheila.
(d) Eric.

6. Who leaves the house after Gerald?
(a) Eric.
(b) Sheila.
(c) Sybil.
(d) Arthur.

7. Why does Inspector Goole say Mrs. Birling asked for assistance from the Brumley Women’s Charity Organization?
(a) Because she was unemployed.
(b) Because she was pregnant.
(c) Because she had a drinking problem.
(d) Because she was a prostitute.

8. Who does Inspector Goole show Daisy Renton’s photograph to after Gerald leaves?
(a) Eric.
(b) Arthur.
(c) Sheila.
(d) Sybil.

9. What does Inspector Goole say Daisy Renton called herself when she appealed to the Brumley Women’s Charity Organization?
(a) Eva Birling.
(b) Mrs. Birling.
(c) Daisy Smith.
(d) Eva Smith.

10. How much money did Eric give Mrs. Birling?
(a) 22 shillings.
(b) About 50 pounds.
(c) 25 shillings.
(d) 100 pounds.

11. What did Mrs. Birling tell Eric that upset them both?
(a) That she would not take money from him anymore.
(b) That her parents were dead.
(c) That she was going to commit suicide.
(d) That she was pregnant.

12. What does Gerald say happened after he broke up with Daisy Renton?
(a) He never saw her again.
(b) She traveled to the seaside for two months.
(c) She committed suicide.
(d) They got back together.

13. Who does Eric blame for Mrs. Birling’s death?
(a) Sybil.
(b) Mrs. Birling.
(c) Inspector Goole.
(d) Himself.

14. About what does Gerald disagree with Sheila?
(a) That most of the characters drove Eva Smith to suicide.
(b) That Eric is an alcoholic.
(c) That Inspector Goole was a real police detective.
(d) That Eva Smith, Daisy Renton, and Mrs. Birling were the same person.

15. What organization does Inspector Goole say Sybil belongs to?
(a) The United Nations.
(b) The International Committee for the Red Cross.
(c) The Norwegian Nobel Committee.
(d) The Brumley Women’s Charity Organization.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Arthur order Sheila to do?

2. How does Sheila feel about how she behaved?

3. Why does Eric say the woman he had an affair with and the woman who asked Sybil for help must have been the same woman?

4. When does Gerald say he broke up with Daisy Renton?

5. Why does Arthur think Inspector Goole visited them?

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