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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letters 101 - 124.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who or what does Coward see as at fault for the events of the novel?
(a) The fate handed down by God.
(b) The actions of individuals.
(c) The natural, undeniable human sexual curiosity.
(d) The pressures of the social caste system.

2. What is the main rule of Valmont's and Merteuil's seductions?
(a) They cannot interfere in one another's schemes.
(b) Seductions of impressionable teens are the only worthwhile seductions.
(c) Nothing to incriminate themselves should exist in writing.
(d) Married people are off-limits.

3. What is the first action Valmont takes to make Madame de Tourvel look favorably upon him?
(a) He pays a peasant family's back taxes.
(b) He leaps to his aunt's aid when she falls.
(c) He expresses interest in a position in the Church.
(d) He disarms a burglar at the estate.

4. What advice does Madame de Volanges ask of Merteuil?
(a) Whether she should move up the date of her daughter's wedding.
(b) Whether she should leave for Paris with Cécile.
(c) Whether she should allow her daughter to marry Danceny.
(d) Whether she should ban Valmont from her home.

5. How did Merteuil approach sex on her wedding night?
(a) As a boring chore to complete.
(b) As an experience to observe.
(c) As a horrifying violation to fear.
(d) As a trial to overcome.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Valmont know Merteuil dislikes reading about?

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

3. In his other writings, what view did Laclos take of women?

4. Who does Valmont trick to spend time with the Vicomtesse de M?

5. What does Madame de Tourvel tell Madame de Volanges she will do to get rid of Valmont?

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