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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 Valmont do when alone with Cécile in her room?
(a) He terrorizes her.
(b) He comforts her.
(c) He lectures her.
(d) He rapes her.

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

3. What does Valmont tell Danceny in letter 89?
(a) That Cécile sets her sights on a new man.
(b) That Cécile does not trust him.
(c) That Cécile's love grows stronger every day.
(d) That Cécile pines away for Danceny.

4. How does Prévan get into Merteuil's room on the night of his apparent victory?
(a) He decides to climb her balcony.
(b) He rappels down from her roof.
(c) She suggests he use a secret staircase.
(d) She suggests he disguise himself as a servant.

5. What does Merteuil think is dull above all else?
(a) Women whose coyness borders on rude dismissiveness.
(b) Men who only use one method of seduction over and over.
(c) Women who sleep with men only because they can't say "no."
(d) Men who attract women through their intellect, not their personalities.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Merteuil increase sympathy for herself?

2. What does Valmont order Merteuil to do?

3. What does Danceny complain to Merteuil about in letter 118?

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

5. What does Valmont teach Cécile when they are alone together?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Merteuil's warning to Valmont about his reputation in Paris.

2. What is the general content of the letter Azolan, Valmont's valet, writes to Valmont?

3. What is the content and tone of Danceny's letters to Merteuil?

4. Describe Merteuil's end in the novel.

5. What news of Valmont does Madame de Rosemonde give Madame de Tourvel, and how does Madame de Tourvel react?

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

7. What happens between Valmont and Madame de Tourvel that shocks and angers Valmont, and why does he react so strongly?

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

9. How does Danceny explain his behavior to Madame de Rosemonde?

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

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