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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letters 51 - 80.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What advice does Valmont give to Madame de Tourvel?
(a) Tell others of his love for Valmont, and they will understand.
(b) Succumb to desire and she will pay the price.
(c) Desert her husband, in order to marry Valmont.
(d) Love, and her fears will vanish.

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

3. What event does Valmont tell Madame de Tourvel secured his love for her?
(a) Looking into her eyes on a starlit evening.
(b) Hearing of her piety from Madame de Rosemonde.
(c) Meeting her for the first time.
(d) His charitable actions toward the peasants.

4. What does Cécile tell Danceny in letter 49?
(a) That she wants to continue their relationship.
(b) That she will meet him at a secret location to consummate their love.
(c) That Merteuil convinced her to continue writing to him.
(d) That her duty to God and her future husband prevent her from being with him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What ruse does Valmont use to attempt to secretly rifle through Madame de Tourvel's letters?

2. What else does David Coward, author of the Introduction, insist is a factor in libertine novels?

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

4. What does Laclos favor over the well-trained mind?

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

(see the answer key)

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