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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 bring into question the Marxist claim that pure proletariat revolution is generated by the proletariat class?
(a) Too often members of the proletariat seek to become bourgeois.
(b) A proletariat revolution is too often halted by various conditions in various locations.
(c) That even a Marxist needs to make a personal decision to join one party or another.
(d) The Proletariat can be influenced by materialistic gain.

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

3. What does Beauvoir identify as the irony of the serious man?
(a) He pursues his serious goals but finds them to be insufficient once they are achieved.
(b) He defends the seriousness of his goals while disputing the seriousness of the goals of others.
(c) He considers his goals to be serious whereas the free man considers them to be trivial.
(d) He claims that he freely chose his goals, but they are extensions of the structures that formed his childhood.

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

5. How does Beauvoir compare southern slaves to children?
(a) By comparing their obedience to the slave owner to that of children to adults in their lives.
(b) By comparing their faith in a heavenly afterlife to the fantasy world that children create in their minds.
(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 will an oppressor use history to justify his oppression, according to Beauvoir?

2. Who does Beauvoir use as an example of moving through such obstacles?

3. How does Beauvoir define materialist philosophers?

4. How does Beauvoir establish the relationship between things and man in human action?

5. How does Beauvoir define the present?

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