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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 identify as the spirit of seriousness?
(a) Leaving the fallacy of materialists that only matter matters.
(b) Leaving the fallacy of existentialism that only thought matters.
(c) To consider values as ready-made things.
(d) Facing the reality that the fate of all is the grave.

2. What is the illustration Beauvoir uses to prove her assertion of stubbornness in the face of impossibility?
(a) The deaths that preceded the first successful climb of Mt. Everest.
(b) Beating her fist upon a stone.
(c) The development of the airplane.
(d) The sapling that grows through a sidewalk.

3. In what way does Beauvoir suggest Marxists practice free will?
(a) By acting and preaching to others to act.
(b) By choosing to become Marxists.
(c) By choosing to participate or deny proletariat revolution.
(d) By identifying the bourgeois.

4. What does Beauvoir claim to be the basis upon which a man decides upon what he wants to be?
(a) Upon the basis of moral choice.
(b) Upon the basis of his ethical code providing the greatest benefit.
(c) Upon the basis of the most beneficial consequences of his acts.
(d) Upon the basis of what he has been.

5. To what conclusion to Beauvoir arrive regarding Sartre's internal choices that are affected by personal passions?
(a) Sartre's man eliminates the needs for external moral influence by following passions that eventually lead to personal benefit.
(b) Since Sartre considers man as driven by internal passions, he brings to question the existence of the physical world and its causes and effects.
(c) Since passions and their choices are internal, there are no objective standards by which to define their usefulness.
(d) Since man is directed by his eternal passions, the external force of God has no influence in Sartre's existentialism.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Beauvoir explain what Descartes meant when he said that the freedom of man is infinite, but this power is limited?

2. When does Beauvoir claim that science acquires meaning?

3. How does Beauvoir claim the condition of the world changes from child to adolescence?

4. What does Beauvoir claim is revealed through art?

5. How does Beauvoir explain that artists can betray their aim with their aesthetic justification?

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