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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 call pursuing the movement toward an end despite the obstacle of certain failure?
(a) The stone pounding complex.
(b) The free movement of existence.
(c) The act of denial.
(d) Fighting through delusions.

2. In what sense does Beauvoir claim that every man is free?
(a) In the sense that he is free to end or continue his existence.
(b) In the sense that he can choose his own ethic.
(c) In the sense that only consequences affect his choices.
(d) In the sense that he spontaneously casts himself into the world.

3. What does Beauvoir claim to be the affect of rejecting any extrinsic justification for internal choices?
(a) Such rejection would also reject the original pessimism which she seeks to address with her work.
(b) Such rejection would lead to the erosion of any social order that makes choice useful.
(c) Such rejection also eliminates any standard by which choices are determined to be useful.
(d) Such rejection also removes the motivations upon passions are fueled.

4. To what conclusion to Beauvoir arrive regarding Sartre's internal choices that are affected by personal passions?
(a) Since Sartre considers man as driven by internal passions, he brings to question the existence of the physical world and its causes and effects.
(b) Since man is directed by his eternal passions, the external force of God has no influence in Sartre's existentialism.
(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. How does Beauvoir identify dualism?
(a) They are thinkers that claim that each individual is destined to live a brief physical life and an eternal spiritual life.
(b) They are thinkers that set to prove that each life has a dual existence in a different dimension.
(c) They are thinkers that believe that the only two human values are life and death.
(d) They are thinkers that establish a hierarchy between body and soul.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Beauvoir bring into question the Marxist claim that pure proletariat revolution is generated by the proletariat class?

2. How does Beauvoir define materialist philosophers?

3. What is a principle that Beauvoir states that an ethics of ambiguity will refuse to deny a priori?

4. What is the point at which existentialism is opposed to dialectic materialism according to Beauvoir?

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

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