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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What knowledge comes to the man who has known real loves, real revolts, real desires and real will according to Beauvoir?
(a) He has reached transcendence.
(b) He has no need of any outside guarantee to be sure of his goals.
(c) He has grasped his ambiguity.
(d) He knows freedom.

2. What is the future that Beauvoir sees for herself?
(a) The opportunity retrieve herself as beings in Glory, Happiness, or justice.
(b) That movement which will fulfill her present projects and will surpass them toward new ends.
(c) A reality which is given at each moment.
(d) The infinite and as Totality, as number and as unity of conciliation.

3. What influence does Beauvoir claim revolt has on the world.
(a) Revolt rises from the recognition of oppression and brings freedom to the world.
(b) Revolt rises from a detachment from things and eventually leads to oppression through the desire to control things.
(c) Revolt affects even those who have adopted the Aesthetic Attitude and forces the realities of the world on every man.
(d) Revolt does not wish to be integrated, but to break the world's continuity.

4. What example did Beauvoir use to show how those who fight for a cause will come to accept certain contradictions.
(a) Politicians who were defeated in elections by foretelling the realized negative consequences of popular programs.
(b) Natives who fought freedom from the British Empire during WWII with the support of Fascist regimes.
(c) Generals who were willing to pull their soldiers from battle so they could win a more important battle later.
(d) Martyrs who were killed by authoritarians who sought to kill their causes, but their deaths gave it more influence.

5. What is the paradox that Beauvoir identifies in the fight against oppression?
(a) Those who desire peace and freedom are too often faced with the need to subject themselves to war.
(b) No action can be generated for man without its being immediately generated against men.
(c) Peace and freedom cannot be won without first going through oppression and war.
(d) Oppression cannot be defeated with out oppression being applied.

Short Answer Questions

1. If an individual does not inform a slave of his oppression, what does Beauvoir suggest of their position regarding tyranny?

2. What example does Beauvoir use to illustrate "...festivals (that) stop the movement of transcendence?"

3. How does Beauvoir compare the present to the future?

4. What example does Beauvoir use to illustrate "The Antinomies of Action"?

5. How does the type of future facing individual humans affect civilizations such as Ancient Greece and Rome, according to Beauvoir?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the example of the conservative that Beauvoir uses to illustrate how tyrants will attempt to prevent revolt?

2. How does Beauvoir define the Aesthetic Attitude?

3. How does Beauvoir claim that science can find truth?

4. What is the main criticism that Beauvoir makes of the Aesthetic Attitude?

5. How does Beauvoir characterize freedom that is won through denying freedom to others?

6. What does Beauvoir claim prevents the future from being considered a harmonious development?

7. How does Beauvoir show that the complexity of the world affects those who are fighting for a cause?

8. What is an example that Beauvoir uses to illustrate the "Antinomies of Action"?

9. What two views of how history affects the future does Beauvoir note?

10. How does Beauvoir criticize the claim that life is absurdity?

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