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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 suggest that Christian charity, Epicurean cult of friendship, and Kantian moralism share the same point of views?
(a) By making the individual the ends of which their actions must aim.
(b) By recognizing the failures of their histories.
(c) By recognizing the similarities that define their ambiguity.
(d) By recognizing the limits of their moral laws.

2. In what sense does Beauvoir claim that every man is free?
(a) In the sense that he is free to end or continue his existence.
(b) In the sense that he spontaneously casts himself into the world.
(c) In the sense that only consequences affect his choices.
(d) In the sense that he can choose his own ethic.

3. How does Beauvoir compare women to slaves?
(a) By pointing out that women base their success on the contentment of their families.
(b) By pointing out that women are subject to the laws, gods, customs, and truths created by males.
(c) By pointing out that many women choose to be ignorant of the condition of the world.
(d) By pointing out that women create an existence in their minds that escapes the reality of the world around them.

4. 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) The proletariat who is controlled by the bourgeois.
(d) To the oppressed that it appears as immediately necessary.

5. In the face of emerging violence of man's growing mastery of the world, what does Beauvoir suggest to individuals who seek to navigate it?
(a) To assume and know the condition of our fundamental ambiguity.
(b) To accept the insignificance of the individual as a means of embracing individual ambiguity.
(c) To seek to understand God's role in the growing environment of violence.
(d) To discontinue to attempt to keep up with the changes going on in the world.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Beauvoir consider stubbornness in the face of an obstacle that is impossible to overcome?

2. What example does Beauvoir use to illustrate "...festivals (that) stop the movement of transcendence?"

3. What is a principle that Beauvoir states that an ethics of ambiguity will refuse to deny a priori?

4. What does Beauvoir claim to be the meaning and substance of all action?

5. What does Beauvoir claim defines the "sub-man"?

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