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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, The Positive Aspect of Ambiguity, Sections 1-3, The Aesthetic Attitude, Freedom and Liberation, The Antinomies of Action.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Beauvoir report comes to the individual at the time the world changes in his perspective?
(a) He can begin to control the consequences of his acts.
(b) The world is no longer ready made.
(c) He faces the choice of repeating past mistakes or breaking from them.
(d) He has the moment of moral choice.

2. How does Beauvoir suggest a past accomplishment can be made relevant in the present?
(a) By tracing the affects of the act from the past through to the present.
(b) By comparing present acts to the acts of the past.
(c) By ceaselessly returning to it and justify it as part of the project with which the individual is currently involved.
(d) By keeping a record of all accomplishments to reflect upon those experiences with every decision.

3. What are the two clans that Beauvoir claims to come from oppression?
(a) Those who believe their status allows them the freedom to oppress and those whose freedom is taken for the benefit of those of status.
(b) Those who escape into their aesthetic only to allow their oppressive ideas to penetrate reality and subject the freedom of others to mechanically toil to satisfy their needs.
(c) The oppressors and the oppressed.
(d) Those who enlighten mankind by thrusting it ahead of itself, and those who are condemned to mark time hopelessly.

4. How does Beauvoir claim that the child develops the conviction of good and evil?
(a) Through punishments, prizes, words of praise or blame.
(b) Through pain and healing.
(c) Through observation and learning.
(d) Through joy and disappointment.

5. At what point does Beauvoir declare the death of an individual is not a failure?
(a) If his death leads to the victory of his cause.
(b) If the cause for which he died is carried on by his survivors.
(c) When it is integrated into a project which surpasses the limits of life.
(d) When the cause for which he died preserves freedom for all.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way does Beauvoir consider nihilistic thinking to be right?

2. What does Beauvoir claim comes, "...between the past which no longer is and the future which is not yet,..."?

3. How does Beauvoir explain that technics (technology) is not objectively justified?

4. What is the paradox that Beauvoir identifies in the fight against oppression?

5. What does Beauvoir state is the goal at which her freedom aims?

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