5-a-Day AIC

1. What date was the play written and set? Why is this important?

• An Inspector Calls was written and set in the same year - 1912. It reflected the Edwardian time period.

• An Inspector Calls is set in 1945, it was written and performed in 1912 - it reflected a dystopian society.

• An Inspector Calls is timeless and was not set in any specific time period.

• An Inspector Calls is set in 1912, it was written and performed in 1945 – it reflected social values and life after war.

2. Why did J. B. Priestley write An Inspector Calls?

• He thought it would be a good way to make money and cheer people up after the Second World War.

• He encouraged his audiences to judge the middle-class social values of 1912 in the light of the morality of 1945.

• Priestley wanted people to take the opportunities for progress available to them.

• He wanted to use the play as propaganda.

3. What does responsibility mean?

• The idea that we are responsible for the more vulnerable members of society.

• That we are aware of other people's problems but we don't help them.

• The idea that we are not responsible for any other person apart from ourselves.

• I'm not sure.

4. What does socialism mean?

• Everybody looks out for everybody.

• You only look out for yourself and your business.

• Everyone should be self-reliant and care for themselves.

• It's the government's problem.

Give 2 facts about Priestley.