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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. What is the illustration Beauvoir uses to prove her assertion of stubbornness in the face of impossibility?
(a) The sapling that grows through a sidewalk.
(b) The development of the airplane.
(c) The deaths that preceded the first successful climb of Mt. Everest.
(d) Beating her fist upon a stone.

2. To what conclusion to Beauvoir arrive regarding Sartre's internal choices that are affected by personal passions?
(a) Since passions and their choices are internal, there are no objective standards by which to define their usefulness.
(b) Since Sartre considers man as driven by internal passions, he brings to question the existence of the physical world and its causes and effects.
(c) Sartre's man eliminates the needs for external moral influence by following passions that eventually lead to personal benefit.
(d) Since man is directed by his eternal passions, the external force of God has no influence in Sartre's existentialism.

3. How does Beauvoir define materialist philosophers?
(a) Those who "see no life after this one".
(b) Those who see "no value in thought".
(c) Those who "conceive all matter as eternal".
(d) Those who have "striven to reduce mind to matter".

4. How does Beauvoir claim the condition of the world changes from child to adolescence?
(a) The adolescent realizes his decisions have affects.
(b) The world is no longer ready made, but must be made.
(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.

5. What does Beauvoir mean when she refers to "The Antinomies of Action"?
(a) That actions, not words, are most effective against oppression.
(b) That the intentions of the those who act against oppression must be constantly in check.
(c) That improper actions against oppression will lead to more oppression.
(d) That often in the fight for or against oppression, the action contradicts the motivation.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What role does time play what Beauvoir identifies as the ability to will oneself free?

3. What does Beauvoir claim matters to the serious man?

4. What quote from Lenin does Beauvoir use to demonstrate the Marxist revolution has human meaning?

5. What does Beauvoir claim to be the only solution for those who are oppressed?

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