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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Danceny fear after reading Valmont's report?
(a) That Cécile loves Valmont.
(b) That Cécile dies.
(c) That Cécile needs to go back to the convent.
(d) That Cécile no longer loves him.

2. What does Danceny entrust to Madame de Rosemonde?
(a) All of the lyric poetry he wrote for Cécile.
(b) Cécile's honor as Madame de Rosemonde's ward.
(c) Valmont's entire correspondence with Merteuil.
(d) The secret of Valmont and Madame de Tourvel's relationship.

3. Why is Merteuil's maid trustworthy?
(a) Merteuil pays the maid an exorbitant salary for her cooperation.
(b) Merteuil knows her maid's greatest secret.
(c) Merteuil threatened to kill the maid if she betrays Merteuil.
(d) The maid is Merteuil's daughter.

4. What does Merteuil advise Madame de Volanges regarding Cécile?
(a) To shut her away in a convent.
(b) To allow her to elope with Danceny.
(c) To maintain her engagement to Gercourt.
(d) To disown her and throw her out on the street.

5. What does Valmont teach Cécile when they are alone together?
(a) Dirty language and sexual positions.
(b) How to become the next Merteuil.
(c) How to be modest and seem virginal for Gercourt.
(d) How to take precautions against pregnancy.

6. Whom does Cécile enlist as help in her escapades with her lover?
(a) Valmont's butler.
(b) Her old nurse.
(c) Her mother's cook.
(d) The house porter.

7. What does Valmont suspect about Cécile?
(a) That she is unwittingly pregnant.
(b) That she is carrying on with Danceny.
(c) That she has fallen in love with him.
(d) That she has seduced him.

8. What does Danceny do to Merteuil, as reported by Madame de Volanges in letter 168?
(a) He decides to forget her and the pain she caused.
(b) He kills her in a fit of rage.
(c) He marries her in secret, then they run away to Italy.
(d) He publishes two of her shocking letters.

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

10. What is Madame de Tourvel's mindset in letter 161?
(a) Thoughtful and contemplative.
(b) Clear and coherent.
(c) Sad and lonely.
(d) Disturbed and disorganized.

11. What does Merteuil advise Cécile to do after being raped by Valmont?
(a) Keep the event secret from Danceny and elope with him.
(b) Give into despair.
(c) Confess everything to her mother and ask for forgiveness.
(d) Give into pleasure and take Valmont as a lover.

12. What does Valmont brag about to Merteuil at the beginning of Part IV?
(a) He publicly humiliated Madame de Volanges.
(b) He wounded Danceny in a duel.
(c) He successfully seduced Madame de Tourvel.
(d) He made Cécile his love-slave.

13. About what does Valmont mock Merteuil in letter 158?
(a) Her lack of true friends.
(b) Her rapidly aging features.
(c) Her incapability of managing her affairs.
(d) Her non-meeting with Danceny.

14. How does Madame de Tourvel feel about Valmont?
(a) She pities him.
(b) She idolizes him.
(c) She abhors him.
(d) She fears him.

15. How does Valmont and Madame de Tourvel's first sexual encounter go?
(a) It is a mutually satisfying experience.
(b) She surprises him with her refined technique.
(c) They are interrupted by a servant halfway through.
(d) She faints and he rapes her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Valmont entice Danceny to do?

2. Which category of women does Merteuil consider the most worthwhile?

3. What does the unsigned note to Danceny communicate?

4. What is Merteuil careful to say in Prévan's hearing when they meet for the second time?

5. What does Merteuil think is dull above all else?

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