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

2. What does Madame de Rosemonde advise Madame de Volanges do about Cécile?
(a) Encourage her to marry the Comte de Gercourt.
(b) Punish her by depriving her of attention.
(c) Allow her to take the veil.
(d) Leave her to her own immoral devices.

3. What does Merteuil effectively refuse to do with Valmont?
(a) Cover up for him.
(b) Have a sexual relationship with him.
(c) Share seduction stories.
(d) Mentor Cécile for him.

4. What does Merteuil assert that Madame de Tourvel is doing to Valmont?
(a) Making him more intelligent.
(b) Leading him on.
(c) Hardening his heart.
(d) Boring him to death.

5. What happens to Cécile when Valmont's door opens while they are together?
(a) She decides to run away and live on the streets.
(b) She faints, then wakes to formulate an explanation.
(c) She goes mad and must be institutionalized.
(d) She has a seizure and miscarries.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Madame de Tourvel confess to Madame de Rosemonde?

2. How does Merteuil increase sympathy for herself?

3. What does Merteuil worry about Madame de Volanges?

4. What does Merteuil advise Valmont to tell Madame de Tourvel?

5. How does Merteuil decide that Prévan is attempting to seduce her?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how Madame de Tourvel changes after being abandoned by Valmont.

2. Describe Valmont's response to Merteuil's affair with Danceny.

3. What event causes Madame de Tourvel to think Valmont does not love her? How does Valmont's respond?

4. What arguments does Valmont use to convince Madame de Tourvel to see him?

5. Summarize the problem Madame de Tourvel sees preventing her and Valmont from having a relationship, and how Valmont circumvents her hesitation.

6. Describe Madame de Tourvel's dictated, unaddressed letter which Madame de Volanges sends to Madame de Rosemonde.

7. How does Madame de Volanges respond to Cécile's depression?

8. How did Merteuil develop into a master manipulator?

9. What does Valmont vow about his seduction of Madame de Tourvel, and how does he plan to carry out his plan?

10. Summarize Merteuil's tale of her ruination of Prévan's.

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