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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. Beauvoir claims that dualists use their basic belief to establish what idea?
(a) To diminish the part of the self that cannot be saved.
(b) To embrace nihilism.
(c) To seek to find life on other planets.
(d) To guide their adherents to prepare exclusively for the after life.

2. What does Beauvoir call pursuing the movement toward an end despite the obstacle of certain failure?
(a) The act of denial.
(b) The stone pounding complex.
(c) The free movement of existence.
(d) Fighting through delusions.

3. In what way does Beauvoir suggest Marxists practice free will?
(a) By choosing to become Marxists.
(b) By choosing to participate or deny proletariat revolution.
(c) By acting and preaching to others to act.
(d) By identifying the bourgeois.

4. Beauvoir claims that critics of existentialism claim that it is solipsistic. What is solipsism?
(a) The theory that only the self (mind) exists or can be proven to exist.
(b) The theory that life is nothing more than a creation in the mind of God.
(c) The theory that only the physical life exists and matter is eternal.
(d) The theory that life is replicated on many planets in many worlds.

5. How does Beauvoir define materialist philosophers?
(a) Those who "see no life after this one".
(b) Those who have "striven to reduce mind to matter".
(c) Those who "conceive all matter as eternal".
(d) Those who see "no value in thought".

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How does Beauvoir introduce the role of God in the discussion of ethics?

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

5. What does Beauvoir claim comes of an accomplished act that is left behind by an individual?

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