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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 Madame de Tourvel promise to Madame de Volanges in letter 11?
(a) That she will request that Valmont leave the estate.
(b) That she will treat Valmont coldly.
(c) That she will do everything Valmont asks of her.
(d) That she will consider no one's feelings, but her own.

2. Who is the author of the Editor's Preface?
(a) Laclos' wife, Marie-Soulange Duperré.
(b) Philippe-Égalité.
(c) A close friend of Laclos.
(d) Choderlos de Laclos.

3. According to Merteuil in letter 10, which pretext do women use to submit to sexual pleasure with a man?
(a) Women use the excuse of weak-mindedness.
(b) Women allow themselves to be raped.
(c) Women initiate their own seductions.
(d) Women come to secret agreements with their lovers.

4. 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.

5. What literary tradition does Coward see as applicable?
(a) Don Juanism.
(b) Elegiac poetry.
(c) Romanticism.
(d) Sentimentality.

Short Answer Questions

1. In letter 83, how does Valmont try to convince Madame de Tourvel to love him?

2. Why is Merteuil's maid trustworthy?

3. Where does Cécile live before coming home to Paris?

4. According to the author of the Editor's Preface, what is the value of a work of literature?

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

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