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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 claim of existentialists does Beauvoir offer in defense of detractors to existentialism?
(a) Bouvoir claims that existentialists offer their detractors important challenges to prove their theories.
(b) Bouvoir claims that existentialists believe that the world is willed by man, insofar as his will expresses his genuine reality.
(c) Bouvoir claims that existentialists give focus to the importance of matter in reality.
(d) Bouvoir claims that existentialists help to accentuate the strengths of other theories.

2. According to Beauvoir, what is the goal of dualist teachings to their disciples?
(a) To escape ambiguity.
(b) To eliminate ambiguity from the after life.
(c) To see the physical life as ambiguous.
(d) To eliminate ambiguity from extraterrestrial life.

3. What does Beauvoir seek to prove regarding man's mastery of the world?
(a) With each gain to control his surroundings, man feels himself more insignificant within the immense collectivity on the earth.
(b) That the more widespread men attain mastery of the world, the more they find themselves crushed by it.
(c) Man's mastery of the world is futile, because nature is constantly changing beyond man's ability to contain it.
(d) Man's journey to master the world is a quest to meet God.

4. What does Beauvoir suggest becomes the intellectual responsibility of existentialists who reject God?
(a) He bears the responsibility to show his works for self-benefit do not affect others in his environs.
(b) He bears responsibility for a world which is not the work of strange power.
(c) He has the responsibility of defining how works for self-benefit are also beneficial to his environs.
(d) 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Beauvoir suggest a past accomplishment can be made relevant in the present?

2. What is the illustration Beauvoir uses to prove her assertion of stubbornness in the face of impossibility?

3. What role does time play what Beauvoir identifies as the ability to will oneself free?

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

5. Who does Beauvoir use as an example of moving through such obstacles?

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