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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. How does Beauvoir explain how the passionate man different from the adventurer man?
(a) The passionate man fails to fulfill his subjectivity rather than the content of the subjectivity.
(b) The passionate man has a focus guiding his adventures.
(c) The passionate man acts from internal desires.
(d) The passionate man attaches his adventure to unmovable ethics.

2. What does Beauvoir define as the drama of original choice?
(a) That its affects are ambiguous.
(b) That it has both cause and effect.
(c) That it goes on moment by moment for an entire lifetime.
(d) That it justifies the positions of existentialists.

3. How does Beauvoir define the Aesthetic Attitude?
(a) The attitude that freedom can only be willed while being around others.
(b) The belief that man can only be free by separating from others.
(c) The objection that man cannot will himself free because the individual is almost always free by being around others.
(d) The objection that only the isolated man is free.

4. What does Beauvoir claim comes of the man who does not use his the necessary instruments to escape the lie of his serious life that prevents his freedom?
(a) He is condemned to living a life in which all his ethics, morality, and decisions are made for him.
(b) He becomes a "sub-man" who has no more purpose in existing than pebbles or trees.
(c) He slips back into the defined existence of a child.
(d) He is no longer a man, but a father, a boss, a member of the Christian Church or the Communist party.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beauvoir assert to be the consequences of a world in which every man has to do with other men?

2. What does Beauvoir claim a child can do due to his state of security?

3. How does Beauvoir establish the relationship between things and man in human action?

4. What are the four items that Beauvoir identifies as the "indefinite conquests of existence over being"?

5. Why does Beauvoir claim that some individuals have lives that slip into an infantile world?

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