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 establish the relationship between things and man in human action?
(a) Things remain through history after the actions of man bring them to reality.
(b) This sustain the actions of man by presenting themselves as obstacles.
(c) Things are the result of the actions of man and help man transcend time and space.
(d) Things validate the actions of man through being the products of projects of man.

2. What quote from Lenin does Beauvoir use to demonstrate the Marxist revolution has human meaning?
(a) "The entire purpose of training, educating and teaching the youth of today should be to imbue them with communist ethics."
(b) "We say that our morality is entirely subordinated to the interests of the proletariat's class struggle."
(c) "I call any action useful to the party moral action; I call it immoral if it is harmful to the party."
(d) "Our action only has meaning if it brings down the influence of the bourgeois."

3. How does Beauvoir explain that the Marxist paradox lends to her theory the scheme of man is ambiguous?
(a) She agrees that, "One even the most devoted proletariat has what he needs, he begins feeding his desires."
(b) She suggests that, although, "Marxists deride traditional moral codes that forbid theft and adultery as being 'bourgeois', she points out that strict adherence to Marxist dogma is a moral imperative for revolution."
(c) She points out that , "He wants to be, and to the extent that the coincides with this wish, he fails."
(d) She shows that, "Morality is based on denial, while work and labor is based upon acquisition."

4. What does Beauvoir claim to protect the child from the risk of existence?
(a) His budding existentialist belief that only thoughts matter.
(b) His obedience to adults.
(c) The ceiling which human generations have built over his head.
(d) His inability to comprehend the consequences of decisions.

5. What does Beauvoir require for an individual to genuinely desire an end in the present?
(a) A desire for that end throughout his entire existence.
(b) A recognition of consequences that will come through the desired end.
(c) An expected manipulation of the material world through the desired end.
(d) A fulfillment of spontaneous desires over time.