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Question 1

‘psychology’ - Gender

Answer 1

‘Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analysed, women…merely adored.’ - Mrs Cheveley

Question 2

‘faults and all’ - Gender

Answer 2

‘Why can’t you women love us, faults and all?’ - Robert Chiltern

Question 3

‘knowing their weaknesses’ - Gender

Answer 3

‘When we men love women, we do so knowing their weaknesses, their follies, their imperfections, love them all the more, it may be, for that reason’ - Robert Chiltern

Question 4

‘wider’ - Gender

Answer 4

‘A man’s love…is wider, larger, more human than a woman’s’ - Robert Chiltern

Question 5

‘forget’ - Gender

Answer 5

‘Men easily forget. And I forgive. That is how women help the world’ - Lady Chiltern

Question 6

‘good conduct prize’ - Morality

Answer 6

‘Lady Chiltern always getting the good conduct prize!’ - Mrs Cheveley

Question 7

‘highest principles’ - Morality

Answer 7

‘Lady Chiltern is a woman of the very highest principles, I am glad to say.’ - Lady Markby

Question 8

‘compromise’ - Morality

Answer 8

‘Sooner or later in political life one has to compromise. Every one does.’ - Robert Chiltern

Question 9

‘personally dislike’ - Morality

Answer 9

‘Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike’ - Mrs Cheveley

Question 10

‘big battalions’ - Power

Answer 10

‘I am much stronger than you are. The big battalions are on my side.’ - Mrs Cheveley

Question 11

‘youth’ - Power

Answer 11

‘Youth is the time for success. I couldn’t wait’ - Robert Chiltern

Question 12

‘curious hold’ - Power

Answer 12

‘She must have had some curious hold over Baron Arnheim. I wonder what it was.’ - Robert Chiltern
‘[Smiling.] I wonder’ - Lord Goring

Question 13

‘bad qualities’ - Forgiveness

Answer 13

‘Well, I delight in your bad qualities. I wouldn’t have you part with one of them’ - Mabel Chiltern

Question 14

‘damn sympathy’ - Forgiveness

Answer 14

‘Oh, damn sympathy. There is a great deal too much of that sort of thing going on nowadays’ - Lord Caversham

Question 15

‘forgive’ - Forgiveness

Answer 15

‘She loves you, Robert. Why should she not forgive?’ - Lord Goring

Question 16

‘help the world’ - Forgiveness

Answer 16

‘You can forget. Men easily forget. And I forgive. That is how women help the world. I see that now.’ - Lady Chiltern