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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letters 151 - 175.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the tone of Cécile's letter 55 to Sophie?
(a) Adult and experienced.
(b) Frightened and remorseful.
(c) Tender and cautious.
(d) Gloating and mocking.

2. What does Valmont order Merteuil to do?
(a) Abandon her tutelage of Cécile.
(b) Abandon her affair with Danceny.
(c) Abandon her affair with Belleroche.
(d) Abandon her friendship with Madame de Volanges.

3. What does Madame de Volanges discover about her daughter?
(a) She has been spending her inheritance foolishly.
(b) She has been having sex with Valmont.
(c) She has been corresponding with Danceny.
(d) She has been disrespectful to God.

4. Who are the two people Cécile admits she likes best?
(a) Merteuil and Danceny.
(b) Merteuil and Madame de Rosemonde.
(c) Valmont and Merteuil.
(d) Danceny and Madame de Volanges.

5. How does Cécile respond to Valmont's suggestion about their secret correspondence?
(a) She asks to speak to Danceny directly.
(b) She agrees to Valmont's request for more time.
(c) She refuses to steal her mother's key.
(d) She suggests they use a third party to pass their letters.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Danceny respond upon learning of Valmont's treachery?

3. What advice does Madame de Volanges ask of Merteuil?

4. Why, says Madame de Tourvel in letter 78, was she wary toward Valmont when they first met?

5. According to Merteuil in letter 10, which pretext do women use to submit to sexual pleasure with a man?

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