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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. What does Beauvoir claim to be the violence committed by opponents to the Nazi occupation of France.
(a) To create a state of violence that made collaboration impossible.
(b) To defeat the German military.
(c) To chase out their German occupiers.
(d) To inspire the nation to overthrow the occupation.

2. What does Beauvoir claim to be the meaning and substance of all action?
(a) Existentialism.
(b) The future.
(c) Ambiguity.
(d) Freedom.

3. What does Beauvoir claim comes of an accomplished act that is left behind by an individual?
(a) The act remains as an experience that lends to the development of the will.
(b) It has a diminished affect as time and spontaneous acts have different consequences.
(c) It becomes nothing more than a fact.
(d) The affects of the act continue, but the act becomes forgotten.

4. What Beauvoir claim to happen to a democratic regime that defends itself by acts of oppression?
(a) It is embracing the ambiguity of existence.
(b) It betrays its virtues.
(c) It faces the possibility of becoming oppressive.
(d) It is pursuing political goals.

5. Upon what does Beauvoir claim existence is based?
(a) Ambiguity.
(b) Goals.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Doing something.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the future that Beauvoir sees for herself?

2. In the challenge for those who suffer more than one oppressor, what answer does Beauvoir offer?

3. What does Beauvoir state is the goal at which her freedom aims?

4. What does Beauvoir identify as the certain truth contained in the nihilist attitude?

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

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