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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 4-5, The Present and the Future, Ambiguity and Conclusion.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Beauvoir claim to be the affect of rejecting any extrinsic justification for internal choices?
(a) Such rejection would lead to the erosion of any social order that makes choice useful.
(b) Such rejection also eliminates any standard by which choices are determined to be useful.
(c) Such rejection would also reject the original pessimism which she seeks to address with her work.
(d) Such rejection also removes the motivations upon passions are fueled.

2. What role does time play what Beauvoir identifies as the ability to will oneself free?
(a) Time is required for the individual to understand that he is free.
(b) Time allows the accumulation of spontaneous acts to define their direction.
(c) The individual uses time to manipulate the physical world to exercise his freedom.
(d) The goal of freedom is pursued and confirmed in time.

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

4. How does Beauvoir summarize Hegel's view of the future?
(a) The future is organic because it is built on the lives and sacrifices of the past.
(b) The future can only be affected if one accepts the validity of the projects they take as contributing to it.
(c) The future is not stationary because the mind is restless and the struggle for the future never ceases.
(d) The future will only begin when the socialist state ends prehistory and begins real history.

5. When an individual aims at a goal that will be achieved beyond his own death, what does Beauvoir claim the individual should expect from the time given to the goal?
(a) The individual should expect those who share his vision accept his means.
(b) The individual should expect a festival be given in his honor.
(c) The individual should expect his virtues to be challenged through his effort.
(d) The individual should not expect anything of that time for which he worked.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Beauvoir define the present?

2. What are projects according to Beauvoir?

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

4. What Beauvoir claim to happen to a democratic regime that defends itself by acts of oppression?

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

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