The Ethics of Ambiguity; Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

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The Ethics of Ambiguity; Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Personal Freedom and Others.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. How does Beauvoir claim the condition of the world changes from child to adolescence?
(a) The world is no longer ready made, but must be made.
(b) The adolescent realizes his decisions have affects.
(c) The individual begins to realize that matter has significant influence on thought.
(d) When a child begins to realize he cannot create his own existence, he becomes accountable for his thoughts.

3. What does Beauvoir claim matters to the serious man?
(a) Using his ambiguity to shape his ethics.
(b) Setting a track to achieve a predetermined goal.
(c) Being able to lose himself in the nature of the object which he prefers to himself.
(d) Subjecting himself to the project that defines his ambiguity to himself.

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

5. What does Beauvoir claim to be the relationship between the serious and nihilism?
(a) The serious man and nihilists dispute the purpose of those who do not support their goals.
(b) Seriousness and nihilism focus on goals or the impossibility of reaching them to avoid accepting the freedom of ambiguity.
(c) The serious man often rallies to a partial nihilism, denying everything which is not its object.
(d) Seriousness and nihilism both develop a narrow set of ethics based upon a relationship to achievement or lack of the same.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beauvoir identify as the paradox of Marxist thought?

2. What does Beauvoir indicate can sometimes happen when there is a failure of the serious?

3. How does Beauvoir suggest that a child console himself when confronted with personal imperfection?

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

5. How does Beauvoir claim that a slave can exercise freedom?

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