Mr Birling
Assessment
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Sally LYNAM
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English
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11th Grade
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289 plays
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Medium
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1.
Multiple Choice
The play was written in 1945 but set in 1912 so the audience watch it knowing what happens in the future when the characters do not know this. This technique is called what?
Dramatic Irony
Pathetic fallacy
Alliteration
Personification
2.
Multiple Select
Because of this technique we find out Mr Birling is an arrogant fool and therefore all his views are trusted less by an audience. Which of the following are his incorrect claims:
The strikes will be the end of the 'labour troubles'
Nobody's interested in 'war' except some 'half civilised' people in the 'Balkans'
The working class were unreasonable for requesting a pay rise
The Titanic is 'unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable'
3.
Multiple Choice
As a 'hard headed' man of business he is focused on money. This makes him a:
socialist
optimist
capitalist
pessimist
4.
Multiple Choice
He wants his daughter to marry Gerald Croft because...
He knows she loves him despite all of last summer 'when he never came near' her
He is a really lovely chap and a 'well bred man about time'
He thinks the businesses can work together for 'lower costs and higher prices' and therefore make more money
He thinks the relationship will lead to his business destroying Gerald's business
5.
Multiple Choice
Before the inspector comes Mr Birling comments that 'a man has to look after himself and his own' structurally this is important because...
it links the inspector's arrival to the comment and therefore that he is there to teach the family a capitalist lesson about our responsibility to look after others in society
he highlights that Mr Birling is absolutely correct and is there to stop him accepting responsibility
it reveals the Inspector is there to reinforce a capitalist message to the family
it links the inspector's arrival to the comment and therefore that he is there to teach the family a socialist lesson about our responsibility to look after others in society
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