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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the school-friend to whom Cécile writes?
(a) Francoise.
(b) Émilie.
(c) Eliza.
(d) Sophie.

2. With whom does Valmont conspire to trick and humiliate a new acquaintance?
(a) Cécile.
(b) Merteuil.
(c) Madame de Volanges.
(d) Émilie.

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

4. To whom does the Marquise de Merteuil confide her plots?
(a) Madame de Tourvel.
(b) Valmont.
(c) Madame de Volanges.
(d) Danceny.

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

6. What idea does Merteuil plant in Cécile's head after the revelation of her and Danceny's love?
(a) Seeing Danceny in secret.
(b) Shifting her desire to Valmont.
(c) Running away with Danceny.
(d) Becoming a nun.

7. How did French society view Laclos after the publication of _Les Liaisons Dangereuses_?
(a) As a "saint."
(b) As a "monster."
(c) As a "mystery."
(d) As a "genius."

8. What does Danceny's letter 28 accuse Cécile of?
(a) Being heartless and pitiless toward him.
(b) Being flirtatious with other men.
(c) Being rude and condescending in her letters.
(d) Being ignorant about his feelings.

9. How does Coward characterize each "chapter" in __Les Liaisons Dangereuses_?
(a) They are "stodgy."
(b) They are "theatrical."
(c) They are "flighty."
(d) They are "identical to one another."

10. What message does the Publisher's Foreword give?
(a) It encourages readers to thoroughly enjoy the novel
(b) It asserts the reality and truth of the novel's events.
(c) It warns the readers that this is a dangerous novel.
(d) It offers a comic summary of the novel.

11. In his other writings, what view did Laclos take of women?
(a) Women should not be enslaved by a male-dominated society.
(b) Women were corruptors of society.
(c) A woman's honor was tied to their virginity.
(d) Women should be seen or heard.

12. How does Valmont's tale of seduction end?
(a) With a kidnapping.
(b) With an orgy.
(c) With a duel.
(d) With a pregnancy.

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

14. What does Danceny refuse to do, despite Madame de Volanges' request?
(a) Burn his letters.
(b) Travel abroad to forget Cécile.
(c) Marry another woman.
(d) Return Cécile's letters.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Valmont make sure that Madame de Tourvel will read his first letter?

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

3. Whom does Valmont plan to seduce?

4. Where does Cécile live before coming home to Paris?

5. What is Valmont and Danceny's relationship as of letter 57?

(see the answer keys)

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