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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 is a principle that Beauvoir states that an ethics of ambiguity will refuse to deny a priori?
(a) That, by definition, "ethics of ambiguity" must remained undefined.
(b) That the most important element of "ethics of ambiguity" is to disallow them from defining the conduct of those outside their understanding.
(c) That separate existants can be bound to each other, such as individual freedoms can forge laws valid for all.
(d) That "ethics of ambiguity" are as solipsistic as is existentialism.

2. What does Beauvoir report to the the qualities of God that establishes moral standards?
(a) A moral code from God contributes to establishing a moral consensus that directs thought.
(b) A God can pardon, efface and compensate.
(c) A moral code given from God removes the demands from human minds to create one.
(d) A moral code from God constricts believers to live within boundaries.

3. What prevents a moral question from presenting itself to the child according to Beauvoir?
(a) A lack of perspective to see himself in the past or seeing himself in the future.
(b) Ignorance of the physical world.
(c) Ignorance of consequences.
(d) The misunderstanding of spontaneity and affects.

4. What type of individual does Beauvoir claim adopts the Aesthetic Attitude?
(a) One who detaches freedom from will.
(b) One who only contemplates his freedom while he is among others.
(c) One who claims to have no other relation with the world than that of detached contemplation.
(d) One who uses his freedom to guide others to consider the world in detached contemplation.

5. What does Beauvoir suggest becomes the intellectual responsibility of existentialists who reject God?
(a) He bears the responsibility to show his works for self-benefit do not affect others in his environs.
(b) He bears the responsibility to prove the lives of others have not affects on himself, starting with the union of his parents that brought his existence.
(c) He bears responsibility for a world which is not the work of strange power.
(d) He has the responsibility of defining how works for self-benefit are also beneficial to his environs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beauvoir seek to prove regarding man's mastery of the world?

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

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

4. How does Beauvoir bring into question the Marxist claim that pure proletariat revolution is generated by the proletariat class?

5. In what way does Beauvoir consider nihilistic thinking to be right?

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