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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letters 16 - 50.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ruse does Valmont use to attempt to secretly rifle through Madame de Tourvel's letters?
(a) He fakes a nosebleed and leaves the room.
(b) He pretends to be a burglar in the night.
(c) He says he is going hunting.
(d) He complains of a headache.

2. What literary tradition does Coward see as applicable?
(a) Sentimentality.
(b) Elegiac poetry.
(c) Romanticism.
(d) Don Juanism.

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

4. Why does Valmont think it possible to seduce this woman?
(a) Her husband is away.
(b) He seduced her in the past.
(c) He already knows she has a weak character.
(d) She expressed interest in him.

5. What does Valmont ask Madame de Tourvel to do in letter 35?
(a) Move to Paris so they can be seen in society together.
(b) Give him the names of those saying bad things about him.
(c) Commit to a sexual relationship with him.
(d) Divorce her husband, the judge.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Valmont conspire to trick and humiliate a new acquaintance?

2. What does Madame de Tourvel allow Valmont to do?

3. What does Cécile tell Danceny in letter 49?

4. Who or what does Coward see as at fault for the events of the novel?

5. How did French society view Laclos after the publication of _Les Liaisons Dangereuses_?

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