1. What advice does Madame de Volanges ask of Merteuil?
(a) Whether she should allow her daughter to marry Danceny.
(b) Whether she should leave for Paris with Cécile.
(c) Whether she should move up the date of her daughter's wedding.
(d) Whether she should ban Valmont from her home.

2. How was __Les Liaisons Dangereuses_ treated after the turn of the 20th century?
(a) Readers and critics ignored its existence until ten years ago.
(b) Readers and critics reaffirmed the initial 18th-century response.
(c) Readers and critics were more likely to praise and study it.
(d) Readers and critics extolled it as the single best novel of the Western hemisphere.

3. According to the author of the Editor's Preface, what is the value of a work of literature?
(a) The price it can be sold at; the wealth it can bring its author.
(b) Its usefulness to society and/or the pleasure it gives its readers.
(c) Its moral obligation to society.
(d) The opportunity it offers its readers to escape their dull, daily lives.

4. How does Coward recommend the novel should be criticized?
(a) By referencing only the text itself, and no outside information.
(b) By employing only what the reader knows about Laclos' life.
(c) By using a variety of critical theories and methodologies.
(d) By placing the novel only in the context of 18th-century France.

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