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 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."

2. How does Beauvoir claim that the individual with the Aesthetic Attitude regard his role in history?
(a) He considers his thoughts to form the existential material of history.
(b) He considers himself outside of time, and does not belong to history.
(c) He considers history to have no affect on his Aesthetic Attitude.
(d) He considers his will to remain free to be the driving force of history.

3. What does Beauvoir claim comes, "...between the past which no longer is and the future which is not yet,..."?
(a) This moment when (the individual) exists.
(b) The ever changing moment of the present.
(c) The crossroads of reality.
(d) The point at which time ceases to move.

4. How does Beauvoir explain the differences between the conditions of Western women from that of children?
(a) Children have no instrument to attack the civilization which oppresses them, but women have their charm and guile.
(b) Because of the voting privilege of Western societies, the opinions of women must be taken more seriously than children.
(c) The condition of children are forced upon them, but women choose their condition.
(d) Western women have left the life of children to accept the serious life.

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