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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letters 101 - 124.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Merteuil advise Madame de Volanges regarding Cécile?
(a) To disown her and throw her out on the street.
(b) To maintain her engagement to Gercourt.
(c) To allow her to elope with Danceny.
(d) To shut her away in a convent.

2. What occurs in the tale of seduction Valmont tells Merteuil in letter 79?
(a) Three couples get hoodwinked by one man.
(b) Valmont himself and two unnamed women.
(c) The many mistresses of the King.
(d) One woman seduces three brothers.

3. What is the name of the school-friend to whom Cécile writes?
(a) Eliza.
(b) Francoise.
(c) Sophie.
(d) Émilie.

4. Whom does Danceny trust to help him continue his relationship with Cécile?
(a) Bertram.
(b) Madame de Tourvel.
(c) Valmont.
(d) Madame de Rosemonde.

5. What is the main rule of Valmont's and Merteuil's seductions?
(a) Married people are off-limits.
(b) They cannot interfere in one another's schemes.
(c) Seductions of impressionable teens are the only worthwhile seductions.
(d) Nothing to incriminate themselves should exist in writing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Valmont instruct his valet to do in Paris?

2. What does Madame de Rosemonde offer Madame de Tourvel in her return letter?

3. According to Merteuil in letter 10, which pretext do women use to submit to sexual pleasure with a man?

4. What does Madame de Volanges discover about her daughter?

5. How does Cécile respond to Merteuil's advice about her relationship with Valmont?

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