1. What or who do Lord and Lady Monmouth stand for (read chapter 15 again for more elements)?

2. How does Dorian react when someone says “he was christened Prince Charming”? Why?

3. a. When Lady Narborough asks Dorian if he agrees with Lord Henry that “We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible” “especially when one has been wounded by it,” what does he answer and how? What does this imply?

b. Why (What is the meaning and importance of this sentence for Dorian)?

4. Why does Dorian say “I have never searched for happiness. Who wants happiness? I have searched for pleasure”?

5. What does Dorian mean when he says he has found pleasure “too often”?

6. Why does Dorian fall down?

7. Why does he insist on staying with the house party?

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8. Complete this summary.

a. After spending a few days locked up, Dorian joins the party, who go...

b. He wants to stop Gladys’s brother, Geoffrey, from shooting a hare because...

c. Geoffrey shoots anyway and...

d. Dorian is very afraid because...

e. Later he is relieved because...

9. Find a proof of Lord Henry’s cynicism (why does he say that it’s not a good thing to shoot beaters?).