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. How does Beauvoir explain what Descartes meant when he said that the freedom of man is infinite, but this power is limited?
(a) The individual man has the power to follow his desires until his pursuit is obstructed by a more power man.
(b) That man's mind has no limits in thought, but his physical body does not have the ability to follow the thoughts.
(c) That the will is defined only by raising obstacles and by the contingency of certain obstacles that let themselves be conquered and others that do not.
(d) That man is free to believe all things, but achieving them is subject to the physical universe.

2. Beauvoir claims that dualists use their basic belief to establish what idea?
(a) To diminish the part of the self that cannot be saved.
(b) To seek to find life on other planets.
(c) To embrace nihilism.
(d) To guide their adherents to prepare exclusively for the after life.

3. What does Beauvoir assert to be the consequences of a world in which every man has to do with other men?
(a) The world is a human world in which each object is penetrated with human meanings.
(b) Every man must accept his ambiguity and will his freedom.
(c) Every man must recognize that his freedom is only secured as long as no one attempts to oppress others.
(d) The world is subject to the will of men who seek either freedom or oppression.

4. How will an oppressor use history to justify his oppression, according to Beauvoir?
(a) He will point out only past actions of his benevolence.
(b) He will create new history to confuse his enemies.
(c) He will subjectively use the past to justify his power.
(d) He will negative aspects of history that existed before his power was attained.

5. What is the point at which existentialism is opposed to dialectic materialism according to Beauvoir?
(a) Where subjectivity and objectivity become equally determined by the revolt of the proletariat.
(b) Where revolt, need, hope, rejection, and desire are only the resultants of external forces.
(c) When the proletariat universally works to eliminate its class.
(d) Where intellectual and bourgeois revolutions are considered suspiciously by the proletariat.