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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 state is the goal at which her freedom aims?
(a) "...(C)onquering existence across the always inadequate density of being."
(b) "Rejecting the verdicts of doubters and seeing the possibility of achieving ends through obstacles."
(c) "Understanding the difference between delusion, denial, and stone pounding to affirm true existence."
(d) "Seeing the doors of defeat before initiating and act."

2. At what point does Beauvoir claim an individual has the ability to decide and choose?
(a) When the usefulness of spontaneous acts are identifiable by the individual.
(b) When he can see and manipulate the affects of spontaneous acts on the physical world.
(c) When he responds to the consequences of spontaneous acts.
(d) When the moments of his life begin to be organized into behavior.

3. How does Beauvoir accuse Marxists of accepting moral superiority?
(a) By considering any movement in which a Marxist is involved to be part of the revolution of the proletariat.
(b) By morally condemning any member of the proletariat who does not participate in revolution.
(c) By being suspicious of any bourgeois revolution.
(d) When Marxists find fault with their adversaries and charge them with cowardice, lying, selfishness, and venality.

4. What does Beauvoir identify as the paradox of Marxist thought?
(a) "The point at which the proletariat overthrows the bourgeois, they immediately attempt to become bourgeois."
(b) "From the moment a man recognizes himself as free, he is prohibited from wishing for anything."
(c) "Marxist deny desires for material things while devoting their revolution to taking material things."
(d) "Marxist deny accepting morality while condemning all movements that do not accept their moral view."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Beauvoir define materialist philosophers?

2. Who does Beauvoir use as an example of moving through such obstacles?

3. What does Beauvoir claim to be the affect of rejecting any extrinsic justification for internal choices?

4. What role does time play what Beauvoir identifies as the ability to will oneself free?

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

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