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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, Ambiguity and Freedom.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What prevents a moral question from presenting itself to the child according to Beauvoir?
(a) Ignorance of the physical world.
(b) Ignorance of consequences.
(c) The misunderstanding of spontaneity and affects.
(d) A lack of perspective to see himself in the past or seeing himself in the future.

2. By quoting Dostoyevsky ("If God does not exist, then everything is permitted"), what examination does Beauvoir make?
(a) The role of the existence of God in defining the existence of man and the world.
(b) The role of the physical world on the development of a moral code.
(c) The role of an external moral code in extinguishing passions.
(d) The role of a dualistic spiritual existence in directing passion.

3. What idea regarding ethics does Beauvoir attribute to Hegel?
(a) "There is an ethics only if there is a problem to solve."
(b) "Ethics is irrelevant because they only affect manipulation of a material universe."
(c) "Ethics are the creation of minds that fear facing problems."
(d) "Ethics is self-contained because reality is self-contained."

4. How does Beauvoir claim that Marxists consider man's actions to be valid?
(a) Only if the actions eliminate private property.
(b) Only if the man has not helped initiate his action by an internal movement or through free will.
(c) Only if the actions support the revolution of the proletariat.
(d) Only if the actions are in opposition of the bourgeois.

5. What does Beauvoir claim comes of an accomplished act that is left behind by an individual?
(a) It becomes nothing more than a fact.
(b) It has a diminished affect as time and spontaneous acts have different consequences.
(c) The affects of the act continue, but the act becomes forgotten.
(d) The act remains as an experience that lends to the development of the will.

Short Answer Questions

1. What quote from Lenin does Beauvoir use to demonstrate the Marxist revolution has human meaning?

2. What is the paradox with which Beauvoir closes Chapter One?

3. Beauvoir claims that critics of existentialism claim that it is solipsistic. What is solipsism?

4. What does Beauvoir require for an individual to genuinely desire an end in the present?

5. According to Beauvoir, what is the goal of dualist teachings to their disciples?

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