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. Upon what does Beauvoir claim that a child's freedom is based?
(a) Upon ignorance that makes all his decisions meaningless.
(b) Upon adults whom he is only to respect and obey.
(c) Upon his inability to grasp the concept of cause and effect.
(d) Upon his willingness to trust adults without question.

2. How does Beauvoir characterize the response of Western women when the structures that shelter them seem to be in danger?
(a) They drive themselves further into the subjection that makes them child like.
(b) They become detached and unemotional.
(c) They become harder, more bitter and even more furious or cruel than their masters.
(d) They become confused and bewildered to the point of despair.

3. How does Beauvoir consider stubbornness in the face of an obstacle that is impossible to overcome?
(a) As the beginning of innovation.
(b) As that trial that brings experience.
(c) As stupidity.
(d) As the seed of innocent hope.

4. In what way does Beauvoir suggest Marxists practice free will?
(a) By identifying the bourgeois.
(b) By acting and preaching to others to act.
(c) By choosing to become Marxists.
(d) By choosing to participate or deny proletariat revolution.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Beauvoir characterize the fate of the "sub-man"?

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

3. According to Beauvoir, how is freedom present within the drama of choice?

4. To what does Beauvoir compare the "sub-man"?

5. Beauvoir claims that dualists use their basic belief to establish what idea?

(see the answer key)

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