The Ethics of Ambiguity; Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

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The Ethics of Ambiguity; Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Beauvoir claim to be the affect of rejecting any extrinsic justification for internal choices?

5. Beauvoir claims that dualists use their basic belief to establish what idea?

(see the answer key)

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