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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 claim that oppressive regimes become stronger?
(a) Through the degradation of the oppressed.
(b) Through being willing to kill allies.
(c) Through indiscriminate violence that removes all pretense of freedom.
(d) Through ruthlessly enforcing law.

2. How does Beauvoir compare Marxism to existentialism?
(a) Marxism rejects the moral foundations of law that are rooted in the protection of public property.
(b) Marxism rejects the idea of inhuman objectivity and locates itself in the tradition of Kant and Hegel.
(c) Marxism rejects the idea of authority in the development of organized masses.
(d) Marxism establishes moral thought through mass rejection of the moral order.

3. What relationship does Beauvoir identify between ethics and facticity?
(a) Ethics cannot exist without facticity upon which to base them.
(b) Ethics are the spawn of facticity.
(c) Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
(d) Ethics is the ambiguous manipulation of facticity.

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

5. What does Beauvoir mean when she writes, "...festivals whose role is to stop the movement of transcendence?"
(a) Festivals marking a movement's success obscure the means used to attain the success.
(b) The end has been set up as an end.
(c) Festivals take people away from their future ambiguity.
(d) Festivals become both a means and an end to obscure the meaninglessness of both the present and the future.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Beauvoir claim that a spontaneous action, or flight, can be converted into will?

2. What does Beauvoir identify as the worst thing to be said for violence?

3. Beauvoir claims that dualists use their basic belief to establish what idea?

4. What three considerations an individual make before acting are abstract, according to Beauvoir?

5. What does Beauvoir report comes to the individual at the time the world changes in his perspective?

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