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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 quote from Lenin does Beauvoir use to demonstrate the Marxist revolution has human meaning?
(a) "I call any action useful to the party moral action; I call it immoral if it is harmful to the party."
(b) "The entire purpose of training, educating and teaching the youth of today should be to imbue them with communist ethics."
(c) "Our action only has meaning if it brings down the influence of the bourgeois."
(d) "We say that our morality is entirely subordinated to the interests of the proletariat's class struggle."
2. What is a principle that Beauvoir states that an ethics of ambiguity will refuse to deny a priori?
(a) That the most important element of "ethics of ambiguity" is to disallow them from defining the conduct of those outside their understanding.
(b) That, by definition, "ethics of ambiguity" must remained undefined.
(c) That "ethics of ambiguity" are as solipsistic as is existentialism.
(d) That separate existants can be bound to each other, such as individual freedoms can forge laws valid for all.
3. 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) That the more widespread men attain mastery of the world, the more they find themselves crushed by it.
(c) With each gain to control his surroundings, man feels himself more insignificant within the immense collectivity on the earth.
(d) Man's mastery of the world is futile, because nature is constantly changing beyond man's ability to contain it.
4. At what point does Beauvoir claim an individual has the ability to decide and choose?
(a) When he can see and manipulate the affects of spontaneous acts on the physical world.
(b) When he responds to the consequences of spontaneous acts.
(c) When the usefulness of spontaneous acts are identifiable by the individual.
(d) When the moments of his life begin to be organized into behavior.
5. What does Beauvoir state is the goal at which her freedom aims?
(a) "...(C)onquering existence across the always inadequate density of being."
(b) "Understanding the difference between delusion, denial, and stone pounding to affirm true existence."
(c) "Seeing the doors of defeat before initiating and act."
(d) "Rejecting the verdicts of doubters and seeing the possibility of achieving ends through obstacles."
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Beauvoir identify dualism?
2. What does Beauvoir suggest becomes the intellectual responsibility of existentialists who reject God?
3. In what sense does Beauvoir claim that every man is free?
4. What irony does Beauvoir suggest contributes to the most optimistic ethics.
5. How does Beauvoir accuse Marxists of accepting moral superiority?
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