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

2. In the challenge for those who suffer more than one oppressor, what answer does Beauvoir offer?
(a) Only by generating full support of the masses could any of the oppressors be dispatched.
(b) The issue is moral, not political, and the moral consensus must be reached with at least one oppressor.
(c) Overthrowing the oppressors is a matter of opportunity and efficiency.
(d) Only by working with the least offensive of the oppressors could other oppressors be removed.

3. How does Beauvoir identify dualism?
(a) They are thinkers that believe that the only two human values are life and death.
(b) They are thinkers that claim that each individual is destined to live a brief physical life and an eternal spiritual life.
(c) They are thinkers that establish a hierarchy between body and soul.
(d) They are thinkers that set to prove that each life has a dual existence in a different dimension.

4. During their stage of freedom, how does Beauvoir claim that a child sees adults?
(a) As physically threatening.
(b) As benevolent dictators that provide their needs.
(c) As fanciful projections of their uninhibited minds.
(d) As divinities.

5. How does Beauvoir accuse Marxists of accepting moral superiority?
(a) By morally condemning any member of the proletariat who does not participate in revolution.
(b) By considering any movement in which a Marxist is involved to be part of the revolution of the proletariat.
(c) By being suspicious of any bourgeois revolution.
(d) When Marxists find fault with their adversaries and charge them with cowardice, lying, selfishness, and venality.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Beauvoir introduce the role of God in the discussion of ethics?

2. How does Beauvoir claim that Marxists consider man's actions to be valid?

3. What does Beauvoir claim to be the only solution for those who are oppressed?

4. What does Beauvoir assert to be the consequences of a world in which every man has to do with other men?

5. What does Beauvoir claim to be the relationship between the serious and nihilism?

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