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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. How does Beauvoir claim that a spontaneous action, or flight, can be converted into will?
(a) By accepting the consequences of the spontaneous act.
(b) By evaluating the usefulness of the spontaneous act.
(c) By recognizing the effects of the spontaneous act on the physical world.
(d) By assuming the project positively.

2. What does Beauvoir claim to be the basis upon which a man decides upon what he wants to be?
(a) Upon the basis of his ethical code providing the greatest benefit.
(b) Upon the basis of the most beneficial consequences of his acts.
(c) Upon the basis of what he has been.
(d) Upon the basis of moral choice.

3. What does Beauvoir claim matters to the serious man?
(a) Subjecting himself to the project that defines his ambiguity to himself.
(b) Setting a track to achieve a predetermined goal.
(c) Being able to lose himself in the nature of the object which he prefers to himself.
(d) Using his ambiguity to shape his ethics.

4. What does Beauvoir claim comes, "...between the past which no longer is and the future which is not yet,..."?
(a) The point at which time ceases to move.
(b) This moment when (the individual) exists.
(c) The crossroads of reality.
(d) The ever changing moment of the present.

5. What does Beauvoir report to the the qualities of God that establishes moral standards?
(a) A moral code given from God removes the demands from human minds to create one.
(b) A God can pardon, efface and compensate.
(c) A moral code from God contributes to establishing a moral consensus that directs thought.
(d) A moral code from God constricts believers to live within boundaries.

Short Answer Questions

1. What influence does Beauvoir claim revolt has on the world.

2. What does Beauvoir recognize as the paradox that faces a man who is willing to fight for a valid cause?

3. What does Beauvoir claim to be the choice that comes to a young man after a long crisis?

4. What contradiction does Beauvoir suggest will come to those who fight for a cause due to the complexity of the world?

5. What does Beauvoir suggest becomes the intellectual responsibility of existentialists who reject God?

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