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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: Letters 1 through 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Laclos favor over the well-trained mind?
(a) A sense of humor.
(b) A feeling heart.
(c) A stout constitution.
(d) A high social station.

2. Whom does Merteuil want to manipulate into a relationship with Cécile?
(a) Danceny.
(b) Valmont.
(c) Azolan.
(d) Monsieur de Tourvel.

3. How does Cécile initially feel about Danceny?
(a) She falls deeply in love with him.
(b) She feels ambivalent about him and he bores her.
(c) She likes him and wants to please him with her musical abilities.
(d) She hates his strict style of teaching.

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

5. With which philosophical movement of the 18th century is Laclos associated?
(a) The Age of Realism.
(b) The Late Renaissance.
(c) The French Victorian period.
(d) The French Enlightenment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the Publisher's Foreword to _Les Liasons Dangerueses_?

2. What else does David Coward, author of the Introduction, insist is a factor in libertine novels?

3. In letter 15, what does Valmont call Merteuil about her attentions to her current lover?

4. What euphemism does Merteuil use to refer to her lover?

5. What does Madame de Volanges say about Valmont to Madame de Tourvel in letter 9?

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