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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letters 81 - 100.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Valmont know Merteuil dislikes reading about?
(a) She dislikes reading Valmont's preachy advice.
(b) She dislikes reading about Valmont's progress with Madame de Tourvel.
(c) She dislikes reading about Valmont's past seductions.
(d) She dislikes reading about Cécile's progress with Danceny.

3. What does Cécile tell Danceny in letter 49?
(a) That she will meet him at a secret location to consummate their love.
(b) That she wants to continue their relationship.
(c) That Merteuil convinced her to continue writing to him.
(d) That her duty to God and her future husband prevent her from being with him.

4. How does Cécile generally feel about the prospect of soon being married?
(a) Excited, but confused.
(b) Anxious and frightened.
(c) Haughty and snobbish.
(d) Depressed and dour.

5. What does Madame de Tourvel do that makes Valmont despair?
(a) She sells her story of his seduction to the Paris newspapers.
(b) She has in fact tricked and seduced him, instead of the other way around.
(c) She chooses to have an affair with Danceny.
(d) She leaves the country estate without telling him.

Short Answer Questions

1. In letter 5, how does Merteuil react to Valmont's object of desire?

2. What literary tradition does Coward see as applicable?

3. Who is the author of the Editor's Preface?

4. In letter 26, what does Madame de Tourvel blame on her impassioned outburst?

5. What has Merteuil tricked Cécile into doing?

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