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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Madame de Tourvel reveal to Valmont in letter 90?
2. By letter 148, whom has Danceny taken as a lover?
3. Valmont asserts that a girl who has no respect for her mother will what?
4. What happens to Cécile when Valmont's door opens while they are together?
5. Which category of women does Merteuil consider the most worthwhile?
Short Essay Questions
1. Summarize the content of the "letter" that Merteuil dictates to Valmont about his apparent love of Madame de Tourvel.
2. How does Merteuil respond to Cécile's news about Valmont's actions?
3. What is the reward Valmont claims from Merteuil, and how does Merteuil respond to this?
4. How did Merteuil develop into a master manipulator?
5. What happens between Valmont and Madame de Tourvel that shocks and angers Valmont, and why does he react so strongly?
6. What news of Valmont does Madame de Rosemonde give Madame de Tourvel, and how does Madame de Tourvel react?
7. Describe what Valmont does when he gets the key to Cécile's room.
8. Describe Valmont's response to Merteuil's affair with Danceny.
9. What event causes Madame de Tourvel to think Valmont does not love her? How does Valmont's respond?
10. How does Valmont thwart Merteuil with regards to Danceny?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the role that religion, church, and the clergy have in the novel. How does each character treat, refer to, or interact with religion, faith and morality? Explain the reasoning behind the following categorizations of the main characters, based upon the characters' views on, or influence from, religion: Merteuil and Valmont; Madames de Rosemonde, de Volanges, and de Tourvel; Cécile and Danceny.
Essay Topic 2
Explore the strange, though steady, friendly relationship that Merteuil and Valmont have maintained with one another. Describe the tone that Merteuil and Valmont's letters take with each other throughout most of the novel. What do these letters say specifically about Valmont and Merteuil's relationship and their past, and what do the letters merely imply or hint at? Why does their relationship fail--is it the result of an action, an event, another person, an exterior or interior force? Examine the friction that has taken place between Merteuil and Valmont throughout the novel. How does Merteuil typically respond to Valmont's letters about Madame de Tourvel? How does Merteuil judge Valmont's feelings for Madame de Tourvel or his motivations in pursuing her? How does Valmont defend his motivations and his feelings to Merteuil, and what promise did he continually remind her of? Why would such a reminder perhaps irritate Merteuil? What is the tone and direction of their correspondence once Merteuil decided to take Danceny as a lover?
Essay Topic 3
Analyze Merteuil's relationship with Cécile. What does the older woman do to influence the younger woman? How does Merteuil define Cécile? What are Merteuil's motivations in making Cécile her "protégé?" How does Merteuil manipulate and control Cécile's life and her personal character in ways both visible and invisible to Cécile, to her mother, and to Danceny? Use evidence from Cécile's letters to and about Merteuil, and Merteuil's letters to and about Cécile, to support your arguments.
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