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. What prevents a moral question from presenting itself to the child according to Beauvoir?
(a) Ignorance of the physical world.
(b) Ignorance of consequences.
(c) A lack of perspective to see himself in the past or seeing himself in the future.
(d) The misunderstanding of spontaneity and affects.

2. Who does Beauvoir use as an example of moving through such obstacles?
(a) Sisyphus.
(b) Adalai Stevenson.
(c) Vincent Van Gogh.
(d) Hitler.

3. What claim of existentialists does Beauvoir offer in defense of detractors to existentialism?
(a) Bouvoir claims that existentialists give focus to the importance of matter in reality.
(b) Bouvoir claims that existentialists help to accentuate the strengths of other theories.
(c) Bouvoir claims that existentialists offer their detractors important challenges to prove their theories.
(d) Bouvoir claims that existentialists believe that the world is willed by man, insofar as his will expresses his genuine reality.

4. By quoting Dostoyevsky ("If God does not exist, then everything is permitted"), what examination does Beauvoir make?
(a) The role of the physical world on the development of a moral code.
(b) The role of a dualistic spiritual existence in directing passion.
(c) The role of an external moral code in extinguishing passions.
(d) The role of the existence of God in defining the existence of man and the world.

5. How does Beauvoir introduce the role of God in the discussion of ethics?
(a) By pointing out that all ethics end up being an effort to define God.
(b) By pointing out that Sartre's view of existentialism ends with man attempting to make himself God.
(c) By considering the endless pursuit of pure ethics and the failure to achieve such places the power of judgement in the hands of God.
(d) By suggesting the wide views of the nature of God actually makes God ambiguous.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Beauvoir compare women to slaves?

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

3. How does Beauvoir explain the differences between the conditions of Western women from that of children?

4. What is the focus of the adventurer?

5. What does Beauvoir claim comes, "...between the past which no longer is and the future which is not yet,..."?

(see the answer key)

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