The Ethics of Ambiguity; Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

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The Ethics of Ambiguity; Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Personal Freedom and Others.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Beauvoir explain how goals supplant freedom in the life of the serious man?
(a) Rather than finding freedom in choosing goals, the serious man chooses goals to avoid his freedom.
(b) The serious man is defined by his goal not by his choices or acts.
(c) Goals become the means of defining the existence of the serious man at the cost of freedom and individually defining his ethics.
(d) The serious man rejects all independent thought for the sake of achieving his goal.

2. What does Beauvoir claim defines the "sub-man"?
(a) The man who lives below the potential of his abilities because of choice.
(b) The man who avoids choice and lives a lack of being.
(c) The man whose lack of being is defined by his choice.
(d) The man who rejects the passion of his human condition and lives according to the world than has been established before him.

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

4. What does Beauvoir report to be the child's situation?
(a) He faces the reality that his freedom is continually reduced by his growing knowledge.
(b) His ambiguity is compounded by his ignorance of right and wrong.
(c) He is subject to accept all things based upon what others tell him.
(d) He is cast into a universe which he has not helped to establish and appears as an absolute to which he can only submit.

5. How does Beauvoir define the relationship of the "sub-man" to ethics and facticity?
(a) The "sub-man" rejects the ambiguity of ethics as influences over his facticity.
(b) The "sub-man" considers ethics and facticity as interchangeable.
(c) The "sub-man" rejects ethics and feels only the facticity of his existence.
(d) The "sub-man" accepts ethics as the facticity of his existence as unchangeable.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the illustration Beauvoir uses to prove her assertion of stubbornness in the face of impossibility?

2. What does Beauvoir define as the drama of original choice?

3. What role does time play what Beauvoir identifies as the ability to will oneself free?

4. To what conclusion to Beauvoir arrive regarding Sartre's internal choices that are affected by personal passions?

5. How does Beauvoir explain how the passionate man different from the adventurer man?

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