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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 example did Beauvoir use to show how those who fight for a cause will come to accept certain contradictions.
(a) Natives who fought freedom from the British Empire during WWII with the support of Fascist regimes.
(b) Politicians who were defeated in elections by foretelling the realized negative consequences of popular programs.
(c) Generals who were willing to pull their soldiers from battle so they could win a more important battle later.
(d) Martyrs who were killed by authoritarians who sought to kill their causes, but their deaths gave it more influence.

2. In what way does Beauvoir suggest Marxists practice free will?
(a) By identifying the bourgeois.
(b) By choosing to become Marxists.
(c) By choosing to participate or deny proletariat revolution.
(d) By acting and preaching to others to act.

3. What does Beauvoir claim a child can do due to his state of security?
(a) He can create the world he wants to exist.
(b) He can choose a direction in which he desires to remove his ignorance.
(c) He can do with impunity whatever he likes.
(d) He can have all his needs provided without labor.

4. What does Beauvoir state is the goal at which her freedom aims?
(a) "Rejecting the verdicts of doubters and seeing the possibility of achieving ends through obstacles."
(b) "Seeing the doors of defeat before initiating and act."
(c) "Understanding the difference between delusion, denial, and stone pounding to affirm true existence."
(d) "...(C)onquering existence across the always inadequate density of being."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does human spontaneity give purpose to a human life, according to Beauvoir?

2. What idea regarding ethics does Beauvoir attribute to Hegel?

3. At what time does Beauvoir suggest that children begin to notice the contradictions, hesitations and weaknesses of adults?

4. Upon what does Beauvoir claim that a child's freedom is based?

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

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