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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 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 does not wish to be integrated, but to break the world's continuity.
(d) Revolt affects even those who have adopted the Aesthetic Attitude and forces the realities of the world on every man.

2. What claim of existentialists does Beauvoir offer in defense of detractors to existentialism?
(a) Bouvoir claims that existentialists help to accentuate the strengths of other theories.
(b) Bouvoir claims that existentialists believe that the world is willed by man, insofar as his will expresses his genuine reality.
(c) Bouvoir claims that existentialists give focus to the importance of matter in reality.
(d) Bouvoir claims that existentialists offer their detractors important challenges to prove their theories.

3. What does Beauvoir seek to prove regarding man's mastery of the world?
(a) Man's journey to master the world is a quest to meet God.
(b) That the more widespread men attain mastery of the world, the more they find themselves crushed by it.
(c) With each gain to control his surroundings, man feels himself more insignificant within the immense collectivity on the earth.
(d) Man's mastery of the world is futile, because nature is constantly changing beyond man's ability to contain it.

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

5. What are the four items that Beauvoir identifies as the "indefinite conquests of existence over being"?
(a) Aesthetics, ambiguity, freedom, and oppression.
(b) Past, present, future, and projects.
(c) Time, space, matter, and thought.
(d) Science, technics, art, and philosophy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beauvoir claim can come to people who are filled with the horror of defeat?

2. How does Beauvoir define materialist philosophers?

3. How does Beauvoir explain that artists can betray their aim with their aesthetic justification?

4. What does Beauvoir identify as the paradox of Marxist thought?

5. By quoting Dostoyevsky ("If God does not exist, then everything is permitted"), what examination does Beauvoir make?

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