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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 suggest violent action against oppression becomes a contradiction to the cause of freedom?
(a) Because those who fight oppression must oppress those who fight with them to command the battle.
(b) Because conquering enemies requires reducing the enemies to things and those who fight oppression must reduce themselves to things as well.
(c) Because those who see oppressors as being beneficial will believe they fight for freedom in defense of an oppressor.
(d) Because those who fight oppression generally desire the power of those they attempt to overthrow.

2. What does Beauvoir report to be the child's situation?
(a) He is subject to accept all things based upon what others tell him.
(b) His ambiguity is compounded by his ignorance of right and wrong.
(c) He faces the reality that his freedom is continually reduced by his growing knowledge.
(d) He is cast into a universe which he has not helped to establish and appears as an absolute to which he can only submit.

3. According to Beauvoir, how is freedom present within the drama of choice?
(a) Before the realization that a choice must be made.
(b) In the moment before consequences are evident.
(c) Within the analysis that leads to a decision.
(d) Only in the form of contingency.

4. What does Beauvoir recognize as the paradox that faces a man who is willing to fight for a valid cause?
(a) The only way a man can make an important gain is to sacrifice something equally important.
(b) Only sacrifice can lead to achievement.
(c) Man can only assure better life by causing death to those who would destroy it.
(d) No action can be generated for man without its being immediately generated against men.

5. What does Beauvoir claim an individual must do to conquer an enemy with violence?
(a) Subject freedom to demands for violence.
(b) Reduce the enemy and the self to things.
(c) Recognize that the use of violence will be met with the same.
(d) Adopt the Aesthetic Attitude.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beauvoir define as the drama of original choice?

2. How does Beauvoir suggest a past accomplishment can be made relevant in the present?

3. If an individual does not inform a slave of his oppression, what does Beauvoir suggest of their position regarding tyranny?

4. How does Beauvoir characterize the fate of the "sub-man"?

5. How does the child's life begin actually become serious according to Beauvoir?

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