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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 claim to be the affect of rejecting any extrinsic justification for internal choices?
(a) Such rejection also eliminates any standard by which choices are determined to be useful.
(b) Such rejection would lead to the erosion of any social order that makes choice useful.
(c) Such rejection also removes the motivations upon passions are fueled.
(d) Such rejection would also reject the original pessimism which she seeks to address with her work.

2. How does Beauvoir show how her example of moving through obstacles prove her arguments?
(a) She explained that Adalai Stevenson believed his intellectualism would over come Dwight Eisenhower's popular reputation in two presidential elections.
(b) She explained that Sisyphus was condemned to rolling the boulder up the mountain despite his the fact that it would roll back down once he got it to the top.
(c) She asserted that Van Gogh, despite being institutionalized, integrated his his past as a painter and continued to communicate through his talent.
(d) She pointed out that Hitler had desires to rule the world in spite of the fact that he did not have the ability to take his navy outside of the North Sea.

3. What is a principle that Beauvoir states that an ethics of ambiguity will refuse to deny a priori?
(a) That, by definition, "ethics of ambiguity" must remained undefined.
(b) That separate existants can be bound to each other, such as individual freedoms can forge laws valid for all.
(c) That the most important element of "ethics of ambiguity" is to disallow them from defining the conduct of those outside their understanding.
(d) That "ethics of ambiguity" are as solipsistic as is existentialism.

4. How does Beauvoir identify dualism?
(a) They are thinkers that claim that each individual is destined to live a brief physical life and an eternal spiritual life.
(b) They are thinkers that establish a hierarchy between body and soul.
(c) They are thinkers that set to prove that each life has a dual existence in a different dimension.
(d) They are thinkers that believe that the only two human values are life and death.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What idea regarding ethics does Beauvoir attribute to Hegel?

3. How does Beauvoir claim that Marxists consider man's actions to be valid?

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

5. What prevents a moral question from presenting itself to the child according to Beauvoir?

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