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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 claim that a spontaneous action, or flight, can be converted into will?
(a) By assuming the project positively.
(b) By accepting the consequences of the spontaneous act.
(c) By recognizing the effects of the spontaneous act on the physical world.
(d) By evaluating the usefulness of the spontaneous act.

2. How does Beauvoir characterize the purpose of the body?
(a) It becomes the barometer that marks the move from child to adolescent to mature adult.
(b) It becomes the vessel that evaluates the harm or benefit of consequences.
(c) It expresses our relationship to the world.
(d) It enjoys the pleasures of freedom before consequences are manifest.

3. In what sense does Beauvoir claim that every man is free?
(a) In the sense that he can choose his own ethic.
(b) In the sense that he is free to end or continue his existence.
(c) In the sense that only consequences affect his choices.
(d) In the sense that he spontaneously casts himself into the world.

4. What does Beauvoir claim to be the relationship between the serious and nihilism?
(a) The serious man often rallies to a partial nihilism, denying everything which is not its object.
(b) The serious man and nihilists dispute the purpose of those who do not support their goals.
(c) Seriousness and nihilism focus on goals or the impossibility of reaching them to avoid accepting the freedom of ambiguity.
(d) Seriousness and nihilism both develop a narrow set of ethics based upon a relationship to achievement or lack of the same.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Beauvoir indicate can sometimes happen when there is a failure of the serious?

3. How does Beauvoir claim that a slave can exercise freedom?

4. What are projects according to Beauvoir?

5. Why does Beauvoir claim one cannot assert that everything may be the object of contemplation?

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