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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 high social station.
(b) A stout constitution.
(c) A sense of humor.
(d) A feeling heart.

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

3. Why is Cécile unable to go to the opera with Merteuil?
(a) Madame de Volanges is suspicious of her daughter.
(b) Madame de Volanges does not approve of the opera.
(c) Madame de Volanges is ill and wishes her daughter to stay with her.
(d) Madame de Volanges prohibits her daughter from seeing Merteuil.

4. What does Madame de Volanges say about Valmont to Madame de Tourvel in letter 9?
(a) Valmont is dangerous and deceitful.
(b) Valmont is trustworthy and honest.
(c) Valmont has an excellent reputation around town.
(d) Valmont has an addiction to gambling.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Madame de Tourvel promise to Madame de Volanges in letter 11?

3. What is the name of the school-friend to whom Cécile writes?

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

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

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