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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 consider stubbornness in the face of an obstacle that is impossible to overcome?
(a) As that trial that brings experience.
(b) As stupidity.
(c) As the beginning of innovation.
(d) As the seed of innocent hope.

2. What does Beauvoir claim to be the only solution for those who are oppressed?
(a) Negate oppression by willing oneself free.
(b) Avoid the negative consequences of oppression by producing as directed.
(c) Assume the Aesthetic Attitude and escape the turmoil of the world for an existence of contemplation.
(d) Deny the harmony of mankind by revolting against the tyrants.

3. How will an oppressor use history to justify his oppression, according to Beauvoir?
(a) He will subjectively use the past to justify his power.
(b) He will point out only past actions of his benevolence.
(c) He will create new history to confuse his enemies.
(d) He will negative aspects of history that existed before his power was attained.

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

5. What does Beauvoir suggest becomes the intellectual responsibility of existentialists who reject God?
(a) He bears the responsibility to prove the lives of others have not affects on himself, starting with the union of his parents that brought his existence.
(b) He bears responsibility for a world which is not the work of strange power.
(c) He has the responsibility of defining how works for self-benefit are also beneficial to his environs.
(d) He bears the responsibility to show his works for self-benefit do not affect others in his environs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beauvoir suggest to be the motivation of those who adopt the Aesthetic Attitude?

2. What comes to the individual at the point he begins to notice the conflicts of the adult world, according to Beauvoir?

3. How does Beauvoir compare Marxism to existentialism?

4. What does Beauvoir claim an individual must do to conquer an enemy with violence?

5. What does Beauvoir report to be the child's situation?

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