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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letters 16 - 50.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Merteuil call Danceny in letter 38?
(a) Quiet and wise.
(b) Canny and secretive.
(c) Brainy and obtuse.
(d) Stupid and boring.

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

3. Whom does Valmont plan to seduce?
(a) Merteuil.
(b) Josephine.
(c) Madame de Tourvel.
(d) Madame de Volanges.

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

5. How does Danceny give his first note to Cécile?
(a) He gives it to Valmont to pass to her.
(b) He slips it under her bedroom door.
(c) He hides it in her harp case.
(d) He throws it on her lap.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cécile think are pretty much the same thing?

2. Who are the two people Cécile admits she likes best?

3. What does "libertine" generally refer to in 18th-century France?

4. What does Merteuil do to get herself in the mood for sex with her lover?

5. In letter 20, what does Merteuil promise Valmont upon the success of his seduction of Madame de Tourvel?

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