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

2. What does Beauvoir require for an individual to genuinely desire an end in the present?
(a) A fulfillment of spontaneous desires over time.
(b) An expected manipulation of the material world through the desired end.
(c) A recognition of consequences that will come through the desired end.
(d) A desire for that end throughout his entire existence.

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

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

5. What does Beauvoir claim can come to people who are filled with the horror of defeat?
(a) They must go back to their most recent success to retrace the steps of purpose.
(b) The face the transcendent moment at which they must face failure or freedom to act.
(c) They would keep themselves from ever doing anything.
(d) They reach the need to recall experience to make purpose of life.

Short Answer Questions

1. Beauvoir claims that critics of existentialism claim that it is solipsistic. What is solipsism?

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

3. According to Beauvoir, what is the goal of dualist teachings to their disciples?

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

5. How does Beauvoir explain that Marxists perceive that acts can be regarded as good or bad?

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