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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Sybil say Sheila is upset?
(a) Sheila broke off her engagement to Gerald.
(b) Sheila is tired.
(c) Sheila has had too much to drink.
(d) Sheila feels responsible for Eva Smith's death.

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

3. Why does Sybil become agitated at the end of Act II?
(a) She knows Inspector Goole is going to question Eric.
(b) She has had too much to drink.
(c) She needs to go to bed.
(d) She is tired.

4. About what does Gerald express doubt?
(a) That Inspector Goole had more than one photograph.
(b) That Inspector Goole was a real police detective.
(c) That Eva Smith committed suicide.
(d) That Eva Smith, Daisy Renton, and Mrs. Birling are the same person.

5. Why does Eric say he did not ask Arthur for the money?
(a) Because he felt he could not talk to his father.
(b) Because he has already stolen it.
(c) Because he did not believe his father had the money.
(d) Because he wanted to raise it himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Sybil and Sheila leave?

2. Who does Eric blame for Eva Smith’s death?

3. What does Arthur tell Eric to do?

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

5. Who else saw the photograph Inspector Goole showed Sybil?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of Eric’s monologue in Act III?

2. What does Arthur accuse the other characters of doing?

3. How does Sybil say she felt about Mrs. Birling when Mrs. Birling appealed for help from the Brumley Women’s Charity organization?

4. What sort of organization is the Brumley Women’s Charity organization?

5. After Gerald returns, he asks the others what happened. How does Sybil explain why she answered Inspector Goole’s questions so easily?

6. How does Sybil respond to her own admission that she refused to help Mrs. Birling?

7. Why does Sheila not feel consoled by the revelation that Inspector Goole most likely tricked most of the other characters?

8. What is revealed to Eric about what happened while he was absent?

9. Why does Sheila say she told Sybil about Eric’s drinking?

10. What does Eric say was ironic about Inspector Goole’s entrance into the Birling family home?

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