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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 does Beauvoir assert to be the consequences of a world in which every man has to do with other men?
(a) The world is a human world in which each object is penetrated with human meanings.
(b) Every man must accept his ambiguity and will his freedom.
(c) The world is subject to the will of men who seek either freedom or oppression.
(d) Every man must recognize that his freedom is only secured as long as no one attempts to oppress others.

2. How does Beauvoir define the Aesthetic Attitude?
(a) The belief that man can only be free by separating from others.
(b) The objection that only the isolated man is free.
(c) The attitude that freedom can only be willed while being around others.
(d) The objection that man cannot will himself free because the individual is almost always free by being around others.

3. For whom do Beauvoir and Marx agree that the cause of freedom is most urgent?
(a) To the oppressed that it appears as immediately necessary.
(b) Women who are unaware of the subjugation to men.
(c) The unenlightened who does not realize their exploitation.
(d) The proletariat who is controlled by the bourgeois.

4. Upon what does Beauvoir claim that a child's freedom is based?
(a) Upon his willingness to trust adults without question.
(b) Upon adults whom he is only to respect and obey.
(c) Upon ignorance that makes all his decisions meaningless.
(d) Upon his inability to grasp the concept of cause and effect.

5. In what sense does Beauvoir claim that every man is free?
(a) In the sense that only consequences affect his choices.
(b) In the sense that he spontaneously casts himself into the world.
(c) In the sense that he is free to end or continue his existence.
(d) In the sense that he can choose his own ethic.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Beauvoir introduce the role of God in the discussion of ethics?

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?

3. What is the focus of the adventurer?

4. Why does Beauvoir claim that no project can be considered to be purely contemplative?

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

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