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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: Letters 1 through 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What common subjects of social satire is the novel clearly lacking, according to Coward?
(a) Innocent young women and men.
(b) Adult males, financiers, and clergymen.
(c) Servants and peasants.
(d) Artists, musicians, and stage actors.

2. What does the author of the Editor's Preface claim he has done?
(a) Collected and organized real letters, and provided occasional notes.
(b) Written the story of his own group of friends into the form of letters.
(c) Written all the letters himself, from the perspective of fictional characters.
(d) Translated these letters from another language into French.

3. What does "libertine" generally refer to in 18th-century France?
(a) Sexual depravity.
(b) Conventional wisdom.
(c) Pious worship of God.
(d) Conservative political ideals.

4. What was Laclos' relationship with his own wife and children?
(a) He was timid and shy.
(b) He was cold and distant.
(c) He was harsh and abusive.
(d) He was warm and loving.

5. What message does the Publisher's Foreword give?
(a) It warns the readers that this is a dangerous novel.
(b) It asserts the reality and truth of the novel's events.
(c) It offers a comic summary of the novel.
(d) It encourages readers to thoroughly enjoy the novel

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a "little house?"

2. What was the beginning of Laclos' military career like?

3. With which philosophical movement of the 18th century is Laclos associated?

4. Who wrote the Publisher's Foreword to _Les Liasons Dangerueses_?

5. In his other writings, what view did Laclos take of women?

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