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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 idea regarding ethics does Beauvoir attribute to Hegel?
(a) "Ethics is self-contained because reality is self-contained."
(b) "Ethics are the creation of minds that fear facing problems."
(c) "There is an ethics only if there is a problem to solve."
(d) "Ethics is irrelevant because they only affect manipulation of a material universe."

2. How does Beauvoir claim that a spontaneous action, or flight, can be converted into will?
(a) By evaluating the usefulness of the spontaneous act.
(b) By assuming the project positively.
(c) By accepting the consequences of the spontaneous act.
(d) By recognizing the effects of the spontaneous act on the physical world.

3. What does Beauvoir seek to prove regarding man's mastery of the world?
(a) Man's journey to master the world is a quest to meet God.
(b) With each gain to control his surroundings, man feels himself more insignificant within the immense collectivity on the earth.
(c) That the more widespread men attain mastery of the world, the more they find themselves crushed by it.
(d) Man's mastery of the world is futile, because nature is constantly changing beyond man's ability to contain it.

4. What does Beauvoir report to the the qualities of God that establishes moral standards?
(a) A moral code given from God removes the demands from human minds to create one.
(b) A moral code from God constricts believers to live within boundaries.
(c) A moral code from God contributes to establishing a moral consensus that directs thought.
(d) A God can pardon, efface and compensate.

5. 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) This moment when (the individual) exists.
(d) The point at which time ceases to move.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Beauvoir state is the goal at which her freedom aims?

3. How does Beauvoir show how her example of moving through obstacles prove her arguments?

4. What does Beauvoir require for an individual to genuinely desire an end in the present?

5. What claim of existentialists does Beauvoir offer in defense of detractors to existentialism?

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