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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sheila tell Gerald Inspector Goole behaved?

2. Why is Arthur upset about what happened?

3. What does Arthur offer Gerald after Gerald calls the hospital?

4. What does Arthur suggest at the end of Act II?

5. Why does Arthur think Inspector Goole visited them?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Sybil say Mrs. Birling described the father of her child?

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

4. What happened the night Eric met Mrs. Birling?

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

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

7. What is the difference between how Arthur and Sybil react to the revelation that Inspector Goole tricked them and how Eric and Sheila react?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

By the end of the play, there is a marked dichotomy between how the two generations of the Birling household respond to the night’s events. Write a compare/contrast essay exploring the differences between how Arthur/Sybil and Eric/Sheila respond to the revelations about what each of them has done to Eva Smith/Daisy Renton/Mrs. Birling.

Essay Topic 2

Of all of the major characters implicated in the suicide of Eva Smith/Daisy Renton/Mrs. Birling, Sheila expresses the most remorse about what she has done. In that sense she can be considered the play’s emotional center or core. Write an essay about Sheila as the conscience of the play “An Inspector Calls.”

Essay Topic 3

Though other settings are mentioned in the play’s dialogue, the entirety of the play “An Inspector Calls” is set inside one room in the Birling home with no time interruption between acts. Write an essay exploring how the author’s choice to set the story in only one location affects the play.

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