The Ethics of Ambiguity; Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

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The Ethics of Ambiguity; Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Personal Freedom and Others.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Beauvoir suggest a child has a state of security?
(a) By virtue of his hopes for the future.
(b) By virtue of the fantasy world he creates in his mind.
(c) By virtue of the adults who control his life.
(d) By virtue of his very insignificance.

2. What does Beauvoir report comes to the individual at the time the world changes in his perspective?
(a) The world is no longer ready made.
(b) He faces the choice of repeating past mistakes or breaking from them.
(c) He has the moment of moral choice.
(d) He can begin to control the consequences of his acts.

3. What does Beauvoir report to be the child's situation?
(a) His ambiguity is compounded by his ignorance of right and wrong.
(b) He is cast into a universe which he has not helped to establish and appears as an absolute to which he can only submit.
(c) He is subject to accept all things based upon what others tell him.
(d) He faces the reality that his freedom is continually reduced by his growing knowledge.

4. What does Beauvoir define as the drama of original choice?
(a) That its affects are ambiguous.
(b) That it justifies the positions of existentialists.
(c) That it has both cause and effect.
(d) That it goes on moment by moment for an entire lifetime.

5. What does Beauvoir require for an individual to genuinely desire an end in the present?
(a) A fulfillment of spontaneous desires over time.
(b) An expected manipulation of the material world through the desired end.
(c) A desire for that end throughout his entire existence.
(d) A recognition of consequences that will come through the desired end.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beauvoir claim matters to the serious man?

2. How does Beauvoir explain how the passionate man different from the adventurer man?

3. How does Beauvoir define the relationship of the "sub-man" to ethics and facticity?

4. What irony does Beauvoir suggest contributes to the most optimistic ethics.

5. What type of man does Beauvoir identify as being nihilistic?

(see the answer key)

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