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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 is the name of the school-friend to whom Cécile writes?
(a) Émilie.
(b) Eliza.
(c) Sophie.
(d) Francoise.

2. According to the author of the Editor's Preface, what is the value of a work of literature?
(a) Its usefulness to society and/or the pleasure it gives its readers.
(b) Its moral obligation to society.
(c) The opportunity it offers its readers to escape their dull, daily lives.
(d) The price it can be sold at; the wealth it can bring its author.

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

4. To whom does the Marquise de Merteuil confide her plots?
(a) Madame de Tourvel.
(b) Danceny.
(c) Valmont.
(d) Madame de Volanges.

5. Who or what does Coward see as at fault for the events of the novel?
(a) The fate handed down by God.
(b) The natural, undeniable human sexual curiosity.
(c) The actions of individuals.
(d) The pressures of the social caste system.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Cécile initially feel about Danceny?

2. What was the beginning of Laclos' military career like?

3. How was __Les Liaisons Dangereuses_ treated after the turn of the 20th century?

4. Whom does Valmont plan to seduce?

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

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