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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. Why does Beauvoir claim one cannot assert that everything may be the object of contemplation?
(a) Because the most notable events in history often take up action and forsake contemplation.
(b) Because contemplation cannot exist without action.
(c) Because man never contemplates, he does.
(d) Because all action is combined with contemplation.

2. In the face of emerging violence of man's growing mastery of the world, what does Beauvoir suggest to individuals who seek to navigate it?
(a) To accept the insignificance of the individual as a means of embracing individual ambiguity.
(b) To assume and know the condition of our fundamental ambiguity.
(c) To discontinue to attempt to keep up with the changes going on in the world.
(d) To seek to understand God's role in the growing environment of violence.

3. How does Beauvoir claim that oppressive regimes become stronger?
(a) Through being willing to kill allies.
(b) Through indiscriminate violence that removes all pretense of freedom.
(c) Through ruthlessly enforcing law.
(d) Through the degradation of the oppressed.

4. How does Beauvoir explain the differences between the conditions of Western women from that of children?
(a) Because of the voting privilege of Western societies, the opinions of women must be taken more seriously than children.
(b) Children have no instrument to attack the civilization which oppresses them, but women have their charm and guile.
(c) Western women have left the life of children to accept the serious life.
(d) The condition of children are forced upon them, but women choose their condition.

5. What claim of existentialists does Beauvoir offer in defense of detractors to existentialism?
(a) Bouvoir claims that existentialists give focus to the importance of matter in reality.
(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 help to accentuate the strengths of other theories.
(d) Bouvoir claims that existentialists offer their detractors important challenges to prove their theories.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Beauvoir identify dualism?

2. What does Beauvoir claim comes, "...between the past which no longer is and the future which is not yet,..."?

3. What does Beauvoir claim is revealed through art?

4. How will an oppressor use history to justify his oppression, according to Beauvoir?

5. How does Beauvoir explain that an individual might be responsible for what they accept, but not guilty for acting upon it?

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