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. According to Beauvoir, what is the goal of dualist teachings to their disciples?
(a) To see the physical life as ambiguous.
(b) To escape ambiguity.
(c) To eliminate ambiguity from extraterrestrial life.
(d) To eliminate ambiguity from the after life.

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

3. What does Beauvoir claim an individual must do to conquer an enemy with violence?
(a) Subject freedom to demands for violence.
(b) Adopt the Aesthetic Attitude.
(c) Reduce the enemy and the self to things.
(d) Recognize that the use of violence will be met with the same.

4. How does Beauvoir define the relationship of the "sub-man" to ethics and facticity?
(a) The "sub-man" rejects ethics and feels only the facticity of his existence.
(b) The "sub-man" considers ethics and facticity as interchangeable.
(c) The "sub-man" rejects the ambiguity of ethics as influences over his facticity.
(d) The "sub-man" accepts ethics as the facticity of his existence as unchangeable.

5. What does Beauvoir claim can come to people who are filled with the horror of defeat?
(a) They would keep themselves from ever doing anything.
(b) They must go back to their most recent success to retrace the steps of purpose.
(c) They reach the need to recall experience to make purpose of life.
(d) The face the transcendent moment at which they must face failure or freedom to act.