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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 suggest a past accomplishment can be made relevant in the present?
(a) By keeping a record of all accomplishments to reflect upon those experiences with every decision.
(b) By tracing the affects of the act from the past through to the present.
(c) By comparing present acts to the acts of the past.
(d) By ceaselessly returning to it and justify it as part of the project with which the individual is currently involved.
2. What prevents a moral question from presenting itself to the child according to Beauvoir?
(a) The misunderstanding of spontaneity and affects.
(b) Ignorance of consequences.
(c) A lack of perspective to see himself in the past or seeing himself in the future.
(d) Ignorance of the physical world.
3. What does Beauvoir suggest becomes the intellectual responsibility of existentialists who reject God?
(a) 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.
(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 show his works for self-benefit do not affect others in his environs.
4. How does Beauvoir consider stubbornness in the face of an obstacle that is impossible to overcome?
(a) As the seed of innocent hope.
(b) As the beginning of innovation.
(c) As that trial that brings experience.
(d) As stupidity.
5. How does Beauvoir introduce the role of God in the discussion of ethics?
(a) By considering the endless pursuit of pure ethics and the failure to achieve such places the power of judgement in the hands of God.
(b) By suggesting the wide views of the nature of God actually makes God ambiguous.
(c) By pointing out that all ethics end up being an effort to define God.
(d) By pointing out that Sartre's view of existentialism ends with man attempting to make himself God.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the paradox with which Beauvoir closes Chapter One?
2. What does Beauvoir require for an individual to genuinely desire an end in the present?
3. How does Beauvoir define materialist philosophers?
4. 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?
5. In what way does Beauvoir suggest Marxists practice free will?
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