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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does Cécile initially feel about Danceny?
(a) She feels ambivalent about him and he bores her.
(b) She falls deeply in love with him.
(c) She hates his strict style of teaching.
(d) She likes him and wants to please him with her musical abilities.

4. What does Cécile think are pretty much the same thing?
(a) Sex and love.
(b) Friendship and marriage.
(c) Innocence and ignorance.
(d) Friendship and love.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Valmont plan to seduce?

2. On what issue does Cécile ask Merteuil's advice in letter 27?

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

4. According to the author of the Editor's Preface, what is the value of a work of literature?

5. Whom does Merteuil want to manipulate into a relationship with Cécile?

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