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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. At what point does Beauvoir claim an individual has the ability to decide and choose?
(a) When the usefulness of spontaneous acts are identifiable by the individual.
(b) When he responds to the consequences of spontaneous acts.
(c) When the moments of his life begin to be organized into behavior.
(d) When he can see and manipulate the affects of spontaneous acts on the physical world.

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

3. How does Beauvoir introduce the role of God in the discussion of ethics?
(a) By suggesting the wide views of the nature of God actually makes God ambiguous.
(b) By pointing out that Sartre's view of existentialism ends with man attempting to make himself God.
(c) By pointing out that all ethics end up being an effort to define God.
(d) By considering the endless pursuit of pure ethics and the failure to achieve such places the power of judgement in the hands of God.

4. What irony does Beauvoir suggest contributes to the most optimistic ethics.
(a) That although they seek to lift man to utopia, the eventually lead man to distopia.
(b) That they have all begun by emphasizing the element of failure involved in the condition of man.
(c) That although ethics are pursued to define man's existence, they always lead to ambiguity.
(d) That all ethics eventually lead man to rationalize violations of their ethics.

5. What does Beauvoir state is the goal at which her freedom aims?
(a) "Understanding the difference between delusion, denial, and stone pounding to affirm true existence."
(b) "Rejecting the verdicts of doubters and seeing the possibility of achieving ends through obstacles."
(c) "...(C)onquering existence across the always inadequate density of being."
(d) "Seeing the doors of defeat before initiating and act."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beauvoir note to be the objection of oppressors who are facing overthrow for the cause of freedom?

2. How does Beauvoir consider stubbornness in the face of an obstacle that is impossible to overcome?

3. What does Beauvoir claim matters to the serious man?

4. What does Beauvoir report to be the child's situation?

5. What does Beauvoir identify as the certain truth contained in the nihilist attitude?

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