This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, The Positive Aspect of Ambiguity, Sections 1-3, The Aesthetic Attitude, Freedom and Liberation, The Antinomies of Action.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What influence does Beauvoir claim revolt has on the world.
(a) Revolt rises from the recognition of oppression and brings freedom to the world.
(b) Revolt rises from a detachment from things and eventually leads to oppression through the desire to control things.
(c) Revolt affects even those who have adopted the Aesthetic Attitude and forces the realities of the world on every man.
(d) Revolt does not wish to be integrated, but to break the world's continuity.

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

3. What is the illustration Beauvoir uses to prove her assertion of stubbornness in the face of impossibility?
(a) The development of the airplane.
(b) The deaths that preceded the first successful climb of Mt. Everest.
(c) Beating her fist upon a stone.
(d) The sapling that grows through a sidewalk.

4. What does Beauvoir suggest to be the motivation of those who adopt the Aesthetic Attitude?
(a) It is a way of fleeing the truth of the present.
(b) It is a means of understanding the role of oppression in history.
(c) It is taken so the individual can reflect on the role of the will in using freedom.
(d) It is meant to understand the beauty of freedom.

5. What does Beauvoir indicate can sometimes happen when there is a failure of the serious?
(a) It can bring about a radical disorder.
(b) Sometimes the serious man will recognize his ambiguity and act freely to establish an ethic to help him through his failure.
(c) Sometimes the serious man will revert to his childhood and depend on others for his purpose.
(d) The serious man will have to rely on what training he had as a child to deal with failure.