Answers to SWORDS handout 4

1) poison, lotus, weapon

2) The PM wanted Cicada to seduce both Lu Bu and Dong Zhuo, in the process sowing seeds of discord between them, hoping that that will cause them to fall out.

3) Cicada is unwilling. You can see this from her stammering response when the PM suggested the plot to her. She will lose her chastity if she abides by the PM's plan.

4) Cicada is torn between saving her country and protecting her chastity. If she agrees to the PM's plan, she will have to sacrifice her chastity which she treasures highly. If she refuses the PM's plan, she will have to live her life in guilt, knowing that she did not do her part to save her countrymen from suffering in the hands of two tyrants.

5) The PM is referring to the fact that Cicada had killed a man in order to protect her chastity and now she has to sacrifice it to the era's two worst villains.
His "noble aims" are ironic because noble as it is for the PM to take on the responsibility of ridding the country of the two worst villains in order to remove his countrymen's suffering, it also involves an ignoble scheme that requires a girl to sacrifice her chastity against a will, something a true gentleman would not have allowed to happen.