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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letters 125 - 150.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Madame de Tourvel feel about Valmont?
(a) She idolizes him.
(b) She abhors him.
(c) She fears him.
(d) She pities him.

2. How does Coward recommend the novel should be criticized?
(a) By employing only what the reader knows about Laclos' life.
(b) By using a variety of critical theories and methodologies.
(c) By referencing only the text itself, and no outside information.
(d) By placing the novel only in the context of 18th-century France.

3. What does Valmont teach Cécile when they are alone together?
(a) How to become the next Merteuil.
(b) How to take precautions against pregnancy.
(c) How to be modest and seem virginal for Gercourt.
(d) Dirty language and sexual positions.

4. Who wrote the Publisher's Foreword to _Les Liasons Dangerueses_?
(a) The owner of the shop in which the book was printed.
(b) The Duke d'Orleans.
(c) Choderlos de Laclos.
(d) Laclos' wife, Marie-Soulange Duperré.

5. Whom does Merteuil target for her next seduction?
(a) Gercourt.
(b) Danceny.
(c) Bertram.
(d) Valmont.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Valmont write to ask about seeing Madame de Tourvel?

2. By letter 148, whom has Danceny taken as a lover?

3. What action does Valmont propose to Cécile to facilitate their secret correspondence?

4. Why is Madame de Tourvel suddenly convinced that Valmont no longer loves her?

5. What event does Valmont tell Madame de Tourvel secured his love for her?

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