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

2. What does Merteuil think is Valmont's greatest flaw in his plan of seduction?
(a) His reliance on writing letters.
(b) His specific tone of voice with Madame de Tourvel.
(c) His endeavor to appear to have reformed his libertine ways.
(d) His coming on too strong.

3. What does Merteuil do to get herself in the mood for sex with her lover?
(a) She gazes at herself in the mirror.
(b) She reads.
(c) She daydreams.
(d) She drinks wine.

4. What else does David Coward, author of the Introduction, insist is a factor in libertine novels?
(a) The questioning of humanity's purpose on earth.
(b) The provocation of social mores.
(c) The surrealist confusion of society.
(d) The reinforcement of ancient wisdom.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Valmont act toward Madame de Tourvel, as reported in letter 11?

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

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

4. How does Madame de Tourvel react when Valmont professes his love?

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

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