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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. To what conclusion to Beauvoir arrive regarding Sartre's internal choices that are affected by personal passions?
(a) Since man is directed by his eternal passions, the external force of God has no influence in Sartre's existentialism.
(b) Sartre's man eliminates the needs for external moral influence by following passions that eventually lead to personal benefit.
(c) Since Sartre considers man as driven by internal passions, he brings to question the existence of the physical world and its causes and effects.
(d) Since passions and their choices are internal, there are no objective standards by which to define their usefulness.
2. By quoting Dostoyevsky ("If God does not exist, then everything is permitted"), what examination does Beauvoir make?
(a) The role of the physical world on the development of a moral code.
(b) The role of the existence of God in defining the existence of man and the world.
(c) The role of an external moral code in extinguishing passions.
(d) The role of a dualistic spiritual existence in directing passion.
3. What example does Beauvoir use to illustrate "The Antinomies of Action"?
(a) Men who commit violence against an oppressor for the cause of freedom become oppressors themselves and must reduce the oppressor as a thing to be removed.
(b) That the thinkers who can define the evils of oppression actually become oppressors by making people realize their plight but offering no action to correct it.
(c) That unwise action against oppressors taken without considering the future will lead to more vicious oppression by opportunists.
(d) If those who lead actions against oppression are not under continual scrutiny, they will plan insurrections for their own benefit.
4. How does Beauvoir characterize the purpose of the body?
(a) It enjoys the pleasures of freedom before consequences are manifest.
(b) It becomes the barometer that marks the move from child to adolescent to mature adult.
(c) It becomes the vessel that evaluates the harm or benefit of consequences.
(d) It expresses our relationship to the world.
5. During their stage of freedom, how does Beauvoir claim that a child sees adults?
(a) As physically threatening.
(b) As fanciful projections of their uninhibited minds.
(c) As benevolent dictators that provide their needs.
(d) As divinities.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Beauvoir seek to prove regarding man's mastery of the world?
2. How does Beauvoir introduce the role of God in the discussion of ethics?
3. How does Beauvoir explain that technics (technology) is not objectively justified?
4. What quote from Lenin does Beauvoir use to demonstrate the Marxist revolution has human meaning?
5. What does Beauvoir suggest of movements whose means of achieving a goal contradicts the goal?
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