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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 Danceny resolve to do at the end of the novel?
(a) Pine away and die a lonely, pitiful death.
(b) Take vows as a member of the Knights of Malta.
(c) Collect the letters from everyone and publish them.
(d) Continue to love Cécile from afar until his dying day.

2. What does Madame de Tourvel send to Madame de Rosemonde?
(a) Valmont's cruel letter.
(b) Madame de Volanges' private correspondence.
(c) A lock of her own hair.
(d) A suicide note.

3. What does Valmont brag about to Merteuil at the beginning of Part IV?
(a) He made Cécile his love-slave.
(b) He wounded Danceny in a duel.
(c) He successfully seduced Madame de Tourvel.
(d) He publicly humiliated Madame de Volanges.

4. What is the ultimatum Valmont offers Merteuil?
(a) He demands that she submit to him or die.
(b) He offers a life of pleasure or a life of regret.
(c) He demands that she publish her collection of letters, or he will.
(d) He resolves to be either her lover or her enemy.

5. How did Merteuil approach sex on her wedding night?
(a) As a horrifying violation to fear.
(b) As an experience to observe.
(c) As a trial to overcome.
(d) As a boring chore to complete.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Valmont know Merteuil dislikes reading about?

2. To whom does Valmont write to ask about seeing Madame de Tourvel?

3. What does Valmont order Merteuil to do?

4. What happens to Cécile when Valmont's door opens while they are together?

5. What is the tone of Cécile's letter to Merteuil after her encounter with Valmont?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Merteuil's end in the novel.

3. How does Valmont thwart Merteuil with regards to Danceny?

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

5. What is Merteuil's next plan for seduction? How does Valmont react?

6. What subterfuge does Valmont suggest to Cécile in order to get Danceny's letters to her?

7. Summarize Bertrand's letters to Madame de Rosemonde.

8. What is the reward Valmont claims from Merteuil, and how does Merteuil respond to this?

9. Whom does Valmont enlist to help him communicate and meet with Madame de Tourvel? How does this person respond?

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

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