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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 comes of an accomplished act that is left behind by an individual?
(a) It becomes nothing more than a fact.
(b) It has a diminished affect as time and spontaneous acts have different consequences.
(c) The act remains as an experience that lends to the development of the will.
(d) The affects of the act continue, but the act becomes forgotten.
2. How does Beauvoir define materialist philosophers?
(a) Those who "see no life after this one".
(b) Those who "conceive all matter as eternal".
(c) Those who have "striven to reduce mind to matter".
(d) Those who see "no value in thought".
3. What does Beauvoir claim comes, "...between the past which no longer is and the future which is not yet,..."?
(a) The ever changing moment of the present.
(b) The crossroads of reality.
(c) The point at which time ceases to move.
(d) This moment when (the individual) exists.
4. To what conclusion to Beauvoir arrive regarding Sartre's internal choices that are affected by personal passions?
(a) Since man is directed by his eternal passions, the external force of God has no influence in Sartre's existentialism.
(b) Since Sartre considers man as driven by internal passions, he brings to question the existence of the physical world and its causes and effects.
(c) Sartre's man eliminates the needs for external moral influence by following passions that eventually lead to personal benefit.
(d) Since passions and their choices are internal, there are no objective standards by which to define their usefulness.
5. In what way does Beauvoir suggest Marxists practice free will?
(a) By identifying the bourgeois.
(b) By choosing to participate or deny proletariat revolution.
(c) By choosing to become Marxists.
(d) By acting and preaching to others to act.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Beauvoir state is the goal at which her freedom aims?
2. Beauvoir claims that dualists use their basic belief to establish what idea?
3. What does Beauvoir claim to be the affect of rejecting any extrinsic justification for internal choices?
4. How does Beauvoir introduce the role of God in the discussion of ethics?
5. At what point does Beauvoir claim an individual has the ability to decide and choose?
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