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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 4-5, The Present and the Future, Ambiguity and Conclusion.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Beauvoir suggest of movements whose means of achieving a goal contradicts the goal?
(a) The action will set off a chain of events that will negate the goal.
(b) The whole enterprise sinks into absurdity.
(c) The individual who takes such an approach will become a politician.
(d) The goal and the individual will be disregarded.

3. In what way does Beauvoir suggest Marxists practice free will?
(a) By choosing to participate or deny proletariat revolution.
(b) By choosing to become Marxists.
(c) By identifying the bourgeois.
(d) By acting and preaching to others to act.

4. To what does Beauvoir compare the presence of freedom within the drama of choice?
(a) The calm before the storm.
(b) The historian who chooses threads that take him to the original cause.
(c) The arbitrariness of the grace distributed by God in Calvinistic Doctrine.
(d) The adolescent who sees the world constructed for him as a child is corrupt.

5. What knowledge comes to the man who has known real loves, real revolts, real desires and real will according to Beauvoir?
(a) He has no need of any outside guarantee to be sure of his goals.
(b) He knows freedom.
(c) He has grasped his ambiguity.
(d) He has reached transcendence.

Short Answer Questions

1. Since human life is finite, with what does Beauvoir suggest the individual should concern himself?

2. What irony does Beauvoir suggest contributes to the most optimistic ethics.

3. When an individual aims at a goal that will be achieved beyond his own death, what does Beauvoir claim the individual should expect from the time given to the goal?

4. How does Beauvoir claim a goal is defined?

5. Who does Beauvoir use as an example of moving through such obstacles?

(see the answer key)

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