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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: Letters 1 through 15.

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 offers a comic summary of the novel.
(c) It encourages readers to thoroughly enjoy the novel
(d) It warns the readers that this is a dangerous novel.

2. What does Merteuil do to get herself in the mood for sex with her lover?
(a) She daydreams.
(b) She reads.
(c) She gazes at herself in the mirror.
(d) She drinks wine.

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

4. What was Laclos' relationship with his own wife and children?
(a) He was harsh and abusive.
(b) He was timid and shy.
(c) He was warm and loving.
(d) He was cold and distant.

5. Why is Cécile unable to go to the opera with Merteuil?
(a) Madame de Volanges is ill and wishes her daughter to stay with her.
(b) Madame de Volanges prohibits her daughter from seeing Merteuil.
(c) Madame de Volanges does not approve of the opera.
(d) Madame de Volanges is suspicious of her daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Valmont contrive to grope the woman he wants to seduce?

2. What literary tradition does Coward see as applicable?

3. Who is the author of the Editor's Preface?

4. What does the author of the Editor's Preface claim he has done?

5. Whom does Merteuil want to manipulate into a relationship with Cécile?

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