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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 evaluating the usefulness of the spontaneous act.
(b) By assuming the project positively.
(c) By recognizing the effects of the spontaneous act on the physical world.
(d) By accepting the consequences of the spontaneous act.

2. How does Beauvoir claim that the child develops the conviction of good and evil?
(a) Through joy and disappointment.
(b) Through punishments, prizes, words of praise or blame.
(c) Through pain and healing.
(d) Through observation and learning.

3. What does Beauvoir recognize as the paradox that faces a man who is willing to fight for a valid cause?
(a) No action can be generated for man without its being immediately generated against men.
(b) Only sacrifice can lead to achievement.
(c) Man can only assure better life by causing death to those who would destroy it.
(d) The only way a man can make an important gain is to sacrifice something equally important.

4. According to Beauvoir, how is freedom present within the drama of choice?
(a) Before the realization that a choice must be made.
(b) Within the analysis that leads to a decision.
(c) Only in the form of contingency.
(d) In the moment before consequences are evident.

5. How does Beauvoir explain that technics (technology) is not objectively justified?
(a) Technics can have significant benefit for projects in the present, but too often it fuels the desire to accept the Aesthetic Attitude.
(b) Technics makes the absolute goal of saving time and work of life, but life only gains meaning when time and work are spent.
(c) Technics depends on science for its gains, but science only has purpose when it can transcend time.
(d) Technics too often aims at expanding freedom, but ends up causing individuals to be absorbed into the seriousness of projects.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Beauvoir consider stubbornness in the face of an obstacle that is impossible to overcome?

3. How does Beauvoir identify dualism?

4. What does Beauvoir assert to be the consequences of a world in which every man has to do with other men?

5. During their stage of freedom, how does Beauvoir claim that a child sees adults?

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