Quiz

Questions

1. What does the antique French tapestry in Lady Chiltern's home depict?
2. Who's Lord Goring's father?
3. Why does Mabel defend Goring in front of Caversham?
4. How does Lady Chilern know Mrs. Cheveley?
5. What topics do Sir Robert and Mrs. Cheveley talk about?
6. Who does Mrs. Cheveley mention that startles Sir Robert?
7. What does Mrs. Cheveley tease Goring about?
8. Why does Lord Caversham give out to Lord Goring?
9. Why does Sir Robert not want to talk about the Argentine Canal Company?
10. Why did Mrs. Cheveley invest in the Argentine Canal Company?
11. Why does Sir Robert advise Mrs. Cheveley to get out of the Argentine Canal deal?
12. What does Mrs. Cheveley reveal she knows about Sir Robert?
13. How does Mrs. Cheveley know this about Sir Robert?
14. What does Mrs. Cheveley want in return for giving Sir Robert the letter?
15. What does Mrs. Cheveley reveal to Lady Chiltern?
16. Why does Lady Chiltern tell Sir Robert not to trust Mrs. Cheveley?
17. How does Sir Robert attempt to defend his change in stance about the Argentine canal?
18. Why does Goring think Sir Robert should have told Lady Chiltern the whole truth right away?
19. How does Sir Robert try to excuse the selling of the state secret?
20. How did Baron Arnheim convince Sir Robert to sell the state secret?
21. How much did Sir Robert make from his deal with Arnheim?
22. How much has Sir Robert donated to public charities over the years?
23. Where was Lady Chiltern before she meets Sir Robert and Goring?
24. What topics does the association debate?
25. How does Goring attempt to defend Sir Robert's changing stance on the Argentine Canal Company?
26. Who has proposed to Mabel again?
27. Why does Lady Chiltern think that Tommy would make a good match?
28. Why isn't Mabel interested in Tommy?
29. What's Lady Markby looking for?
30. What does Lady Chiltern tell Mrs. Cheveley about someone who has done something terrible in the past?
31. What does Mrs. Cheveley say about Sir Robert that angers Lady Chiltern?
32. What does Mrs. Cheveley reveal to Lady Chiltern about Sir Robert?
33. What does Sir Robert say to Lady Chiltern when she says her ideal image of him has been shattered?
34. What does Sir Robert say about love?
35. What's Phipps doing at the beginning of the third scene?
36. What's Lord Goring wearing?
37. What does Lord Goring say about the lower classes?
38. What does the pink letter from Lady Chiltern say?
39. What does Goring plan to tell Lady Chiltern?
40. What does Lord Caversham tell his son?
41. What does Mrs. Cheveley find in the drawing room?
42. Why does Sir Robert wish he was dead?
43. Why does Goring think Mrs. Cheveley has come to his home?
44. What does Mrs. Cheveley want?
45. How can Goring attain the letter?
46. Why did Goring wait to find out who returned to claim the brooch?
47. Why does Mrs. Cheveley give Goring the letter?
48. What does Mrs. Cheveley do when Lord Goring fetches her some water?
49. What does Mrs. Cheveley tell Goring she plans to do with the pink letter?
50. What was the article in the Times about?
51. Why does Mabel ignore Lord Goring?
52. What does Goring tell Lady Chiltern about Mrs. Cheveley?
53. What does Sir Robert propose when learning that Lord Goring destroyed the letter addressed to Arnheim?
54. What does the Prime Minister want to offer Sir Robert?
55. Why does Sir Robert decline the Prime Minister's offer?
56. What does Lord Goring say taking Sir Robert's political career will do?
57. What does Goring instruct Lady Chiltern to do?
58. What does Goring say about a man's life?
59. What does Lady Chiltern do to Sir Robert's letter that declines the Cabinet position?
60. What does Lady Chiltern quote?
61. Why does Sir Robert initially reject Goring's request for Mabel's hand in marriage?
62. What does Lady Chiltern say she feels for Robert?

Answers

1. "The Triumph of Love"
2. Lord Caversham
3. She likes him.
4. They went to school together.
5. Women, philosophy, modern literature, and science
6. Baron Arnheim
7. His perpetual bachelorhood
8. Goring dances all night, talks about nothing, and lives only for pleasure.
9. He thinks it's a moneymaking scam.
10. Her friend Baron Arnheim advised her to.
11. The House of Commons will shut the whole thing down when he delivers his report the next day.
12. He made his fortune by selling a state secret to a Stock Exchange speculator when he was younger.
13. She has a letter proving it, which is addressed to Baron Arnheim.
14. She wants Sir Robert to give a speech supporting the Argentine canal.
15. Sir Robert will make a speech supporting the Argentine canal.
16. She was manipulative, dishonest, and a thief when she was younger.
17. He says that the report was biased and that private and public life are two different things.
18. He says you can't hide things from your own wife because they'll always sniff it out.
19. He was young, poor, and ambitious.
20. He invited Sir Robert to his home, showed off his bling, and said that only wealth brings power.
21. 110,000 pounds
22. Twice the bribe amount
23. The Women's Liberal Association
24. Factory Acts, Female Inspectors, the Eight Hour's Bill, and the Parliamentary Franchise
25. He says success requires compromise and ambition demands flexibility.
26. Tommy Trafford
27. He's a great secretary with a lot of promise.
28. Geniuses bore her death.
29. A diamond brooch Mrs. Cheveley lost.
30. They'll probably do it again.
31. Mrs. Cheveley says that Sir Robert is as low as she is.
32. She reveals how their house was bought through fraud, Sir Robert's fortune was made in a dirty deal, and that she'll expose his crime if he doesn't give the speech she wants him to.
33. He says that women need a man to be a perfect, which is the problem with marriage.
34. It means forgiveness.
35. Arranging newspapers on the writing table
36. A silk hat, an Iverness cape, and white gloves
37. They continually have deaths in the family.
38. "I want you. I trust you. I am coming to you."
39. To stand by her husband
40. Goring needs to get married since he's 34 and is wasting his life.
41. The pink letter from Lady Chiltern
42. Lady Chiltern knows about him selling a state secret when he was younger
43. To sell him Sir Robert's incriminating letter
44. To come back to England and be rich
45. By marrying Mrs. Cheveley
46. It was stolen from his cousin years ago and he wanted to find the thief.
47. He plans to tell the police she stole his cousin's brooch.
48. She steals Lady Chiltern's pink letter.
49. She'll make Sir Robert think his wife is sleeping with Lord Goring.
50. How Sir Robert made a brilliant speech denouncing the Argentine scheme
51. He stood her up for riding.
52. Mrs. Cheveley's planning to paint Lady Chiltern's letter as a love letter.
53. To retreat from public life
54. A seat in the Cabinet
55. He sees Lady Chiltern's eyes.
56. It'll emasculate Sir Robert.
57. Stop judging Sir Robert and forgive him.
58. It means more than a woman's.
59. She tears it up.
60. The part of Goring's speech that talks about men's lives being of more value than women's
61. He thinks Goring loves somebody else.
62. Only love