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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 do Sybil and Sheila disagree about?
(a) Sheila's engagement.
(b) Eric's drinking.
(c) Whether or not Inspector Goole is a real police detective.
(d) Clothes.

2. What is Arthur’s biggest fear?
(a) That Gerald and Sheila will break off their engagement.
(b) That the characters’ confessions will become public.
(c) That Eric will become an alcoholic.
(d) That his business will fail.

3. Why does Sybil think Inspector Goole was not a real police detective?
(a) Because he told her her was not.
(b) Because he was not like other police detectives she had met.
(c) Because he did not talk or look like one.
(d) Because the police told her there was no one like him on the force.

4. Why is Arthur upset about what happened?
(a) He is worried Sybil will divorce him and his family will fall apart.
(b) He is upset that Gerald and Sheila broke off their engagement.
(c) He is worried he will no longer be able to play golf with the Chief Constable, Colonel Roberts.
(d) He worries there will be a public scandal and he will not get a knighthood.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Sybil become agitated at the end of Act II?

2. Why did Mrs. Birling not want to marry Eric?

3. What does Inspector Goole say Daisy Renton did after Gerald broke up with her?

4. Why do Sybil and Sheila leave?

5. Who reenters in Act III?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Inspector Goole appeal to Sybil on behalf of Mrs. Birling?

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

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

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

7. What charitable things does Gerald do for Daisy Renton?

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

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

10. Why does Sybil change her mind and say the real culprit in Mrs. Birling’s suicide is not Mrs. Birling but the father of her child?

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