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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. How does Beauvoir compare Marxism to existentialism?
(a) Marxism rejects the idea of authority in the development of organized masses.
(b) Marxism rejects the idea of inhuman objectivity and locates itself in the tradition of Kant and Hegel.
(c) Marxism rejects the moral foundations of law that are rooted in the protection of public property.
(d) Marxism establishes moral thought through mass rejection of the moral order.

2. 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 the beginning of innovation.
(c) As the seed of innocent hope.
(d) As stupidity.

3. What does Beauvoir seek to prove regarding man's mastery of the world?
(a) With each gain to control his surroundings, man feels himself more insignificant within the immense collectivity on the earth.
(b) That the more widespread men attain mastery of the world, the more they find themselves crushed by it.
(c) Man's mastery of the world is futile, because nature is constantly changing beyond man's ability to contain it.
(d) Man's journey to master the world is a quest to meet God.

4. How does Beauvoir claim that a slave can exercise freedom?
(a) By showing expertise in a particular field to make his existence more valuable to the slave owner.
(b) By creating a world of freedom in their minds.
(c) By remaining ignorant of the consciousness of his slavery.
(d) By using their influence over other slaves to overthrow the slave owner.

5. What does Beauvoir claim a child can do due to his state of security?
(a) He can create the world he wants to exist.
(b) He can choose a direction in which he desires to remove his ignorance.
(c) He can do with impunity whatever he likes.
(d) He can have all his needs provided without labor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What three considerations an individual make before acting are abstract, according to Beauvoir?

2. How does Beauvoir suggest that Christian charity, Epicurean cult of friendship, and Kantian moralism share the same point of views?

3. At what point does Beauvoir declare the death of an individual is not a failure?

4. Why does Beauvoir suggest that the idea of the ambiguity of existence should not be considered absurd?

5. How does Beauvoir illustrate her example proves her point that, "festivals stop the movement of transcendence?"

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