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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. How does Beauvoir bring into question the Marxist claim that pure proletariat revolution is generated by the proletariat class?
(a) The Proletariat can be influenced by materialistic gain.
(b) A proletariat revolution is too often halted by various conditions in various locations.
(c) That even a Marxist needs to make a personal decision to join one party or another.
(d) Too often members of the proletariat seek to become bourgeois.

2. 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 responsibility for a world which is not the work of strange power.
(d) He bears the responsibility to show his works for self-benefit do not affect others in his environs.

3. How does Beauvoir accuse Marxists of accepting moral superiority?
(a) By morally condemning any member of the proletariat who does not participate in revolution.
(b) By considering any movement in which a Marxist is involved to be part of the revolution of the proletariat.
(c) By being suspicious of any bourgeois revolution.
(d) When Marxists find fault with their adversaries and charge them with cowardice, lying, selfishness, and venality.

4. What is the point at which existentialism is opposed to dialectic materialism according to Beauvoir?
(a) Where revolt, need, hope, rejection, and desire are only the resultants of external forces.
(b) When the proletariat universally works to eliminate its class.
(c) Where intellectual and bourgeois revolutions are considered suspiciously by the proletariat.
(d) Where subjectivity and objectivity become equally determined by the revolt of the proletariat.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What prevents a moral question from presenting itself to the child according to Beauvoir?

5. How does human spontaneity give purpose to a human life, according to Beauvoir?

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