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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, Ambiguity and Freedom.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Beauvoir suggest becomes the intellectual responsibility of existentialists who reject God?
(a) He has the responsibility of defining how works for self-benefit are also beneficial to his environs.
(b) He bears the responsibility to prove the lives of others have not affects on himself, starting with the union of his parents that brought his existence.
(c) He bears the responsibility to show his works for self-benefit do not affect others in his environs.
(d) He bears responsibility for a world which is not the work of strange power.

2. 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 seek to understand God's role in the growing environment of violence.
(c) To discontinue to attempt to keep up with the changes going on in the world.
(d) To accept the insignificance of the individual as a means of embracing individual ambiguity.

3. What role does time play what Beauvoir identifies as the ability to will oneself free?
(a) The goal of freedom is pursued and confirmed in time.
(b) Time allows the accumulation of spontaneous acts to define their direction.
(c) The individual uses time to manipulate the physical world to exercise his freedom.
(d) Time is required for the individual to understand that he is free.

4. At what point does Beauvoir claim an individual has the ability to decide and choose?
(a) When the moments of his life begin to be organized into behavior.
(b) When the usefulness of spontaneous acts are identifiable by the individual.
(c) When he can see and manipulate the affects of spontaneous acts on the physical world.
(d) When he responds to the consequences of spontaneous acts.

5. Who does Beauvoir use as an example of moving through such obstacles?
(a) Vincent Van Gogh.
(b) Adalai Stevenson.
(c) Hitler.
(d) Sisyphus.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Beauvoir explain that the Marxist paradox lends to her theory the scheme of man is ambiguous?

2. What idea regarding ethics does Beauvoir attribute to Hegel?

3. What does Beauvoir identify as the paradox of Marxist thought?

4. How does Beauvoir explain what Descartes meant when he said that the freedom of man is infinite, but this power is limited?

5. What does Beauvoir report to the the qualities of God that establishes moral standards?

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