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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. Where does Cécile live before coming home to Paris?
(a) With her elderly aunt.
(b) With a family friend.
(c) On the streets.
(d) At a convent.

2. How does Valmont contrive to grope the woman he wants to seduce?
(a) By grabbing her from behind.
(b) By pretending to stumble into her.
(c) By carrying her across a ditch.
(d) By helping her mount a horse.

3. Which place in the social hierarchy did Laclos' family occupy?
(a) The peasant class.
(b) The lowest form of nobility.
(c) The clergy.
(d) The highest form of the gentry.

4. How does Coward characterize each "chapter" in __Les Liaisons Dangereuses_?
(a) They are "theatrical."
(b) They are "identical to one another."
(c) They are "stodgy."
(d) They are "flighty."

5. 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 consider no one's feelings, but her own.
(d) That she will do everything Valmont asks of her.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Coward recommend the novel should be criticized?

2. Why does Valmont think it possible to seduce this woman?

3. Who is the author of the Editor's Preface?

4. Whom does Cécile's mother intend for her to marry?

5. What common subjects of social satire is the novel clearly lacking, according to Coward?

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