The Ethics of Ambiguity; Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

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The Ethics of Ambiguity; Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Personal Freedom and Others.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Beauvoir claim comes of the man who does not use his the necessary instruments to escape the lie of his serious life that prevents his freedom?
(a) He is condemned to living a life in which all his ethics, morality, and decisions are made for him.
(b) He slips back into the defined existence of a child.
(c) He becomes a "sub-man" who has no more purpose in existing than pebbles or trees.
(d) He is no longer a man, but a father, a boss, a member of the Christian Church or the Communist party.

3. What does Beauvoir define as the drama of original choice?
(a) That it has both cause and effect.
(b) That it justifies the positions of existentialists.
(c) That its affects are ambiguous.
(d) That it goes on moment by moment for an entire lifetime.

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

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 can choose his own ethic.
(d) In the sense that he is free to end or continue his existence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What prevents a moral question from presenting itself to the child according to Beauvoir?

2. How does the "sub-man" submerge his freedom, according to Beauvoir?

3. How does Beauvoir compare women to slaves?

4. What does Beauvoir identify as the irony of the serious man?

5. How does Beauvoir define nihilism?

(see the answer key)

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