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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 comes to the individual at the point he begins to notice the conflicts of the adult world, according to Beauvoir?
(a) The individual has the choice of holding to existentialist myths or accepting his ambiguity.
(b) The individual must at last assume his subjectivity.
(c) The individual faces the daunting challenge of pursuing ethics that have none of the inconsistencies that have plagued societies through history.
(d) The individual can pursue freedom or seriousness.

2. How does Beauvoir establish the relationship between things and man in human action?
(a) Things remain through history after the actions of man bring them to reality.
(b) Things validate the actions of man through being the products of projects of man.
(c) Things are the result of the actions of man and help man transcend time and space.
(d) This sustain the actions of man by presenting themselves as obstacles.

3. During their stage of freedom, how does Beauvoir claim that a child sees adults?
(a) As fanciful projections of their uninhibited minds.
(b) As divinities.
(c) As physically threatening.
(d) As benevolent dictators that provide their needs.

4. How does Beauvoir compare southern slaves to children?
(a) By comparing hopes for freedom to the a child's hope for the future.
(b) By comparing their faith in a heavenly afterlife to the fantasy world that children create in their minds.
(c) By comparing their obedience to the slave owner to that of children to adults in their lives.
(d) By comparing the ignorance of their condition to the ignorance of children to the realities of the world.

5. What are the two clans that Beauvoir claims to come from oppression?
(a) Those who escape into their aesthetic only to allow their oppressive ideas to penetrate reality and subject the freedom of others to mechanically toil to satisfy their needs.
(b) The oppressors and the oppressed.
(c) Those who believe their status allows them the freedom to oppress and those whose freedom is taken for the benefit of those of status.
(d) Those who enlighten mankind by thrusting it ahead of itself, and those who are condemned to mark time hopelessly.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Beauvoir suggest a past accomplishment can be made relevant in the present?

2. What is the focus of the adventurer?

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

4. What does Beauvoir report comes to the individual at the time the world changes in his perspective?

5. What does Beauvoir claim comes of the man who does not use his the necessary instruments to escape the lie of his serious life that prevents his freedom?

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