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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. What does Inspector Goole say Daisy Renton did after Gerald broke up with her?
(a) Got fired from Arthur's company.
(b) Committed suicide.
(c) Traveled to the seaside for two months.
(d) Got fired from Milward's.

2. Why did Sybil ask Edna to wait up?
(a) To send Sheila and Eric to bed.
(b) To make tea for the other characters.
(c) To clear the table.
(d) To answer the door.

3. Why did Mrs. Birling not want to continue taking money from the father of her child?
(a) She was too proud.
(b) It was stolen.
(c) She felt like a prostitute.
(d) She did not need it.

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

5. What was Mrs. Birling’s initial false story to the Brumley Women’s Charity Organization about?
(a) About a husband who abandoned her.
(b) About an affair she had.
(c) About her parents dying.
(d) About getting fired from Milward's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who reenters at the end of Act II?

2. Who begins crying after Inspector Goole leaves?

3. Why is Arthur concerned about Sybil’s rejection of Mrs. Birling?

4. What do Sybil and Sheila disagree about?

5. Who does Arthur imitate?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Arthur describe how Inspector Goole was able to trick most of the other characters?

2. Where did Eric say he got the money he gave Mrs. Birling?

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

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

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

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

7. How does Sybil react when Inspector Goole shows her the photograph of Daisy Renton?

8. What makes Gerald think Inspector Goole was not a real police officer?

9. How do the other characters respond to Gerald’s suggestion that Eva Smith, Daisy Renton, and Mrs. Birling may not have been the same person?

10. Why does Sheila become so upset at the end of Act II?

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