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 idea regarding ethics does Beauvoir attribute to Hegel?
(a) "There is an ethics only if there is a problem to solve."
(b) "Ethics is irrelevant because they only affect manipulation of a material universe."
(c) "Ethics are the creation of minds that fear facing problems."
(d) "Ethics is self-contained because reality is self-contained."

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

3. How does Beauvoir claim that Marxists consider man's actions to be valid?
(a) Only if the man has not helped initiate his action by an internal movement or through free will.
(b) Only if the actions eliminate private property.
(c) Only if the actions are in opposition of the bourgeois.
(d) Only if the actions support the revolution of the proletariat.

4. How does Beauvoir claim the condition of the world changes from child to adolescence?
(a) The world is no longer ready made, but must be made.
(b) The individual begins to realize that matter has significant influence on thought.
(c) When a child begins to realize he cannot create his own existence, he becomes accountable for his thoughts.
(d) The adolescent realizes his decisions have affects.

5. When does Beauvoir claim that science acquires meaning?
(a) When it is seen as a movement toward freedom.
(b) When science explains material properties of present conditions.
(c) When science can cross the boundaries of the physical to the aesthetic.
(d) When scientific processes prove phenomena that transcend time.