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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. How does Beauvoir explain that a child, himself, is not serious?
(a) A child is allowed to play and expend his existence freely to passionately pursue and joyfully attain goals which he has set up for himself.
(b) A child is not affected by the knowledge of things that have been established before him.
(c) A child's thoughts are often fanciful and unrealistic.
(d) A child is not aware that his fate is the grave.

2. How does Beauvoir claim that a spontaneous action, or flight, can be converted into will?
(a) By accepting the consequences of the spontaneous act.
(b) By assuming the project positively.
(c) By recognizing the effects of the spontaneous act on the physical world.
(d) By evaluating the usefulness of the spontaneous act.

3. What does Beauvoir claim to be necessary to the desire for the slave to become conscious of his servitude?
(a) For the individual to break through the denial of the slave with a revolt against the tyrant.
(b) For the tyrant to leave the Aesthetic Attitude and accept the oppression he is bringing to others.
(c) For the individual to accept oppression for the sake of demonstrating how the individual can will their freedom.
(d) For the individual who wants to make the slave of his position to avoid becoming a tyrant.

4. What are the two clans that Beauvoir claims to come from oppression?
(a) The oppressors and the oppressed.
(b) Those who enlighten mankind by thrusting it ahead of itself, and those who are condemned to mark time hopelessly.
(c) Those who escape into their aesthetic only to allow their oppressive ideas to penetrate reality and subject the freedom of others to mechanically toil to satisfy their needs.
(d) Those who believe their status allows them the freedom to oppress and those whose freedom is taken for the benefit of those of status.

5. How does Beauvoir claim that a slave can exercise freedom?
(a) By creating a world of freedom in their minds.
(b) By showing expertise in a particular field to make his existence more valuable to the slave owner.
(c) By remaining ignorant of the consciousness of his slavery.
(d) By using their influence over other slaves to overthrow the slave owner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beauvoir assert to be the consequences of a world in which every man has to do with other men?

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?

3. How does Beauvoir show how her example of moving through obstacles prove her arguments?

4. What does Beauvoir claim to protect the child from the risk of existence?

5. Of what does Beauvoir accuse political parties in their effort to control the ambiguity of the human condition?

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