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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 bring into question the Marxist claim that pure proletariat revolution is generated by the proletariat class?
(a) Too often members of the proletariat seek to become bourgeois.
(b) The Proletariat can be influenced by materialistic gain.
(c) That even a Marxist needs to make a personal decision to join one party or another.
(d) A proletariat revolution is too often halted by various conditions in various locations.

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

4. How does Beauvoir explain that Marxists perceive that acts can be regarded as good or bad?
(a) Only when systems are designed that each takes according to his need.
(b) Through the revolt of a class which define aims and goals from a which a new state appears as desirable.
(c) Only when systems are formed in which each gives according to his ability.
(d) Only through the destruction of private property.

5. How does human spontaneity give purpose to a human life, according to Beauvoir?
(a) By spontaneous acts require conscious evaluation to determine their usefulness.
(b) By the fact the spontaneous act of an individual draws a response from others.
(c) By spontaneous acts have affects in a physical world.
(d) By spontaneity always projecting itself toward something.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Beauvoir claims that critics of existentialism claim that it is solipsistic. What is solipsism?

3. To what conclusion to Beauvoir arrive regarding Sartre's internal choices that are affected by personal passions?

4. Beauvoir claims that dualists use their basic belief to establish what idea?

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

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