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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. With what circumstance is Danceny most frustrated?
(a) The weather prevents him from traveling.
(b) Valmont's apparent silence on Danceny and Cécile's affair.
(c) His inability to express his feelings to Cécile.
(d) The inconvenience of being stuck in Paris for business matters.

4. What event does Madame de Volanges' sudden illness threaten?
(a) Danceny's meeting with Madame de Tourvel.
(b) Cécile's meeting with Valmont.
(c) Merteuil's meeting with Valmont.
(d) Cécile's secret meeting with Danceny.

5. How does Valmont give Cécile her letter from Danceny?
(a) He tosses it in her lap.
(b) He gives it to her on a walk in the countryside.
(c) He slips it under her bedroom door.
(d) He reads it aloud.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who or what does Coward see as at fault for the events of the novel?

2. How does Madame de Tourvel react when Valmont professes his love?

3. How does Valmont act toward Madame de Tourvel, as reported in letter 11?

4. What does Merteuil think is Valmont's greatest flaw in his plan of seduction?

5. What is the name of the school-friend to whom Cécile writes?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the general contents of Valmont's love letters to Madame de Tourvel?

2. What does Madame de Volanges say about Valmont to warn Madame de Tourvel against becoming too friendly with him?

3. How does Merteuil respond to Valmont's warning?

4. What was the general response to _Les Liaisons Dangereuses_ in the 20th century?

5. What are Merteuil and Valmont's plans for Danceny and Cécile at the beginning of Part II?

6. What does Merteuil assert is the reason women become "victims" of seduction?

7. How does the Publisher's Foreword introduce the novel?

8. Describe Cécile de Volanges.

9. What is the content of Danceny's letters to Cécile?

10. What does Merteuil suggest, in different forms, to Cécile and Valmont?

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