The Ethics of Ambiguity; Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

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The Ethics of Ambiguity; Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

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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 claim an individual can put himself on the plane of the universal and the infinite?
(a) By taking goals that will transcend their lives.
(b) By considering a system abstractly and theoretically.
(c) By assuring the means and the ends justify each other.
(d) By considering the ambiguity of their decisions.

2. How does Beauvoir claim that oppressive regimes become stronger?
(a) Through the degradation of the oppressed.
(b) Through being willing to kill allies.
(c) Through indiscriminate violence that removes all pretense of freedom.
(d) Through ruthlessly enforcing law.

3. To what does Beauvoir compare the "sub-man"?
(a) A dull book.
(b) A bad painter.
(c) An unpublished writer.
(d) A common laborer.

4. What does Beauvoir note to be the objection of oppressors who are facing overthrow for the cause of freedom?
(a) By overthrowing their oppression, the freedom of oppressors is being deprived.
(b) Overthrowing the order of oppressors threatens to subject all to barbarism.
(c) Overthrowing oppressors will bring neophytes to incompetently administer the principles of law and justice.
(d) Those who overthrow an oppressor are only seeking the power to oppress.

5. What does Beauvoir claim to be the violence committed by opponents to the Nazi occupation of France.
(a) To chase out their German occupiers.
(b) To defeat the German military.
(c) To inspire the nation to overthrow the occupation.
(d) To create a state of violence that made collaboration impossible.

Short Answer Questions

1. Beauvoir claims that dualists use their basic belief to establish what idea?

2. What does Beauvoir seek to prove regarding man's mastery of the world?

3. According to Beauvoir, what stops an individual's life from appearing as a negligible thing?

4. What does Beauvoir identify as the worst thing to be said for violence?

5. How does Beauvoir characterize the response of Western women when the structures that shelter them seem to be in danger?

(see the answer key)

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