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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 does Cécile think are pretty much the same thing?
(a) Sex and love.
(b) Friendship and marriage.
(c) Innocence and ignorance.
(d) Friendship and love.

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

3. What does Danceny's letter 28 accuse Cécile of?
(a) Being rude and condescending in her letters.
(b) Being ignorant about his feelings.
(c) Being flirtatious with other men.
(d) Being heartless and pitiless toward him.

4. What does Merteuil think is Valmont's greatest flaw in his plan of seduction?
(a) His reliance on writing letters.
(b) His coming on too strong.
(c) His endeavor to appear to have reformed his libertine ways.
(d) His specific tone of voice with Madame de Tourvel.

5. How does Valmont spy on Madame de Tourvel?
(a) He climbs a balcony to look through her window.
(b) He uses a listening device in the room next to hers.
(c) He hides behind a tapestry in her room.
(d) He peeps through the keyhole of her room.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Merteuil worry about Madame de Volanges?

2. What does Merteuil call Danceny in letter 38?

3. What is an "epistolary novel?"

4. On what issue does Cécile ask Merteuil's advice in letter 27?

5. Against whom does Valmont warn Merteuil in letter 70?

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