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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 characterize the response of Western women when the structures that shelter them seem to be in danger?
(a) They become harder, more bitter and even more furious or cruel than their masters.
(b) They become confused and bewildered to the point of despair.
(c) They become detached and unemotional.
(d) They drive themselves further into the subjection that makes them child like.

2. What does Beauvoir call pursuing the movement toward an end despite the obstacle of certain failure?
(a) The free movement of existence.
(b) Fighting through delusions.
(c) The stone pounding complex.
(d) The act of denial.

3. What does Beauvoir report comes to the individual at the time the world changes in his perspective?
(a) He has the moment of moral choice.
(b) He can begin to control the consequences of his acts.
(c) The world is no longer ready made.
(d) He faces the choice of repeating past mistakes or breaking from them.

4. For whom do Beauvoir and Marx agree that the cause of freedom is most urgent?
(a) The unenlightened who does not realize their exploitation.
(b) To the oppressed that it appears as immediately necessary.
(c) Women who are unaware of the subjugation to men.
(d) The proletariat who is controlled by the bourgeois.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what sense does Beauvoir claim that every man is free?

2. What is the paradox that Beauvoir identifies in the fight against oppression?

3. How does human spontaneity give purpose to a human life, according to Beauvoir?

4. What does Beauvoir claim to be necessary to the desire for the slave to become conscious of his servitude?

5. How does Beauvoir define materialist philosophers?

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