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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. How does Beauvoir introduce the role of God in the discussion of ethics?
(a) By considering the endless pursuit of pure ethics and the failure to achieve such places the power of judgement in the hands of God.
(b) By pointing out that all ethics end up being an effort to define God.
(c) By pointing out that Sartre's view of existentialism ends with man attempting to make himself God.
(d) By suggesting the wide views of the nature of God actually makes God ambiguous.

2. What does Beauvoir claim an individual must do to conquer an enemy with violence?
(a) Adopt the Aesthetic Attitude.
(b) Reduce the enemy and the self to things.
(c) Subject freedom to demands for violence.
(d) Recognize that the use of violence will be met with the same.

3. What does Beauvoir claim can come to people who are filled with the horror of defeat?
(a) They would keep themselves from ever doing anything.
(b) They reach the need to recall experience to make purpose of life.
(c) They must go back to their most recent success to retrace the steps of purpose.
(d) The face the transcendent moment at which they must face failure or freedom to act.

4. What does Beauvoir claim comes, "...between the past which no longer is and the future which is not yet,..."?
(a) The crossroads of reality.
(b) This moment when (the individual) exists.
(c) The point at which time ceases to move.
(d) The ever changing moment of the present.

5. How does human spontaneity give purpose to a human life, according to Beauvoir?
(a) By the fact the spontaneous act of an individual draws a response from others.
(b) By spontaneous acts require conscious evaluation to determine their usefulness.
(c) By spontaneous acts have affects in a physical world.
(d) By spontaneity always projecting itself toward something.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beauvoir claim to protect the child from the risk of existence?

2. In the challenge for those who suffer more than one oppressor, what answer does Beauvoir offer?

3. How does Beauvoir explain that a child, himself, is not serious?

4. What are the four items that Beauvoir identifies as the "indefinite conquests of existence over being"?

5. What does Beauvoir claim to be the basis upon which a man decides upon what he wants to be?

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