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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 comes of the man of action who does not recognize the ambiguity that appears during the pursuit of his goal, according to Beauvoir?
(a) He will fall victim to the oppression he is fighting.
(b) He can become a dictator.
(c) He will lose sight of his goal.
(d) He will lose his ability to evaluate his choices.

2. What does Beauvoir mean when she writes, "...festivals whose role is to stop the movement of transcendence?"
(a) Festivals become both a means and an end to obscure the meaninglessness of both the present and the future.
(b) Festivals marking a movement's success obscure the means used to attain the success.
(c) The end has been set up as an end.
(d) Festivals take people away from their future ambiguity.

3. Why does Beauvoir claim one cannot assert that everything may be the object of contemplation?
(a) Because the most notable events in history often take up action and forsake contemplation.
(b) Because contemplation cannot exist without action.
(c) Because all action is combined with contemplation.
(d) Because man never contemplates, he does.

4. Why does Beauvoir claim that no project can be considered to be purely contemplative?
(a) Because a project requires putting action to contemplation.
(b) Because projects are contemplated in the present to be completed in the future and become part of the past.
(c) Because projects are contemplated differently by others who act differently from their perspectives.
(d) Because an individual is continually projects himself toward something in the future through a project.

5. What does Beauvoir claim can come to people who are filled with the horror of defeat?
(a) The face the transcendent moment at which they must face failure or freedom to act.
(b) They must go back to their most recent success to retrace the steps of purpose.
(c) They would keep themselves from ever doing anything.
(d) They reach the need to recall experience to make purpose of life.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do ethics of ambiguity avoid being solipsistic?

2. At what time does Beauvoir suggest that children begin to notice the contradictions, hesitations and weaknesses of adults?

3. What does Beauvoir claim to be the violence committed by opponents to the Nazi occupation of France.

4. 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?

5. In what way does Beauvoir suggest Marxists practice free will?

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