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

2. What does Beauvoir suggest becomes the intellectual responsibility of existentialists who reject God?
(a) He has the responsibility of defining how works for self-benefit are also beneficial to his environs.
(b) He bears the responsibility to show his works for self-benefit do not affect others in his environs.
(c) He bears responsibility for a world which is not the work of strange power.
(d) He bears the responsibility to prove the lives of others have not affects on himself, starting with the union of his parents that brought his existence.

3. How does Beauvoir show how her example of moving through obstacles prove her arguments?
(a) 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.
(b) She explained that Adalai Stevenson believed his intellectualism would over come Dwight Eisenhower's popular reputation in two presidential elections.
(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 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.

4. What role does time play what Beauvoir identifies as the ability to will oneself free?
(a) The goal of freedom is pursued and confirmed in time.
(b) Time is required for the individual to understand that he is free.
(c) The individual uses time to manipulate the physical world to exercise his freedom.
(d) Time allows the accumulation of spontaneous acts to define their direction.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Beauvoir identify dualism?

2. How does Beauvoir consider stubbornness in the face of an obstacle that is impossible to overcome?

3. How does Beauvoir define materialist philosophers?

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

5. At what point does Beauvoir claim an individual has the ability to decide and choose?

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