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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 4-5, The Present and the Future, Ambiguity and Conclusion.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Beauvoir, how is freedom present within the drama of choice?
(a) Before the realization that a choice must be made.
(b) Within the analysis that leads to a decision.
(c) In the moment before consequences are evident.
(d) Only in the form of contingency.

2. How does Beauvoir explain that a child, himself, is not serious?
(a) A child is not aware that his fate is the grave.
(b) A child's thoughts are often fanciful and unrealistic.
(c) A child is not affected by the knowledge of things that have been established before him.
(d) A child is allowed to play and expend his existence freely to passionately pursue and joyfully attain goals which he has set up for himself.

3. How does Beauvoir explain the differences between the conditions of Western women from that of children?
(a) Children have no instrument to attack the civilization which oppresses them, but women have their charm and guile.
(b) The condition of children are forced upon them, but women choose their condition.
(c) Because of the voting privilege of Western societies, the opinions of women must be taken more seriously than children.
(d) Western women have left the life of children to accept the serious life.

4. How is Beauvoir asking each one to confirm their existence through the ethics of ambiguity?
(a) As a value for all others.
(b) As a means to an end.
(c) By the transcendence of goals.
(d) By combining mind to matter through projects.

5. What does Beauvoir note to be the objection of oppressors who are facing overthrow for the cause of freedom?
(a) Overthrowing oppressors will bring neophytes to incompetently administer the principles of law and justice.
(b) Those who overthrow an oppressor are only seeking the power to oppress.
(c) By overthrowing their oppression, the freedom of oppressors is being deprived.
(d) Overthrowing the order of oppressors threatens to subject all to barbarism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beauvoir identify as the worst thing to be said for violence?

2. Why does Beauvoir suggest that the idea of the ambiguity of existence should not be considered absurd?

3. How does Beauvoir claim a goal is defined?

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

5. What relationship does Beauvoir identify between ethics and facticity?

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