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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 claim that Marxists consider man's actions to be valid?
(a) Only if the actions eliminate private property.
(b) Only if the actions support the revolution of the proletariat.
(c) Only if the actions are in opposition of the bourgeois.
(d) Only if the man has not helped initiate his action by an internal movement or through free will.

2. What does Beauvoir report to the the qualities of God that establishes moral standards?
(a) A moral code from God constricts believers to live within boundaries.
(b) A God can pardon, efface and compensate.
(c) A moral code from God contributes to establishing a moral consensus that directs thought.
(d) A moral code given from God removes the demands from human minds to create one.

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

4. How does Beauvoir consider stubbornness in the face of an obstacle that is impossible to overcome?
(a) As that trial that brings experience.
(b) As the seed of innocent hope.
(c) As the beginning of innovation.
(d) As stupidity.

5. 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?
(a) To seek to understand God's role in the growing environment of violence.
(b) To assume and know the condition of our fundamental ambiguity.
(c) To accept the insignificance of the individual as a means of embracing individual ambiguity.
(d) To discontinue to attempt to keep up with the changes going on in the world.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Beauvoir accuse Marxists of accepting moral superiority?

2. By quoting Dostoyevsky ("If God does not exist, then everything is permitted"), what examination does Beauvoir make?

3. What does Beauvoir claim can come to people who are filled with the horror of defeat?

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

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

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