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

2. How does Beauvoir define nihilism?
(a) Nihilism is disappointed seriousness which has been turned back upon itself.
(b) Nihilism is the point of nothingness that is felt at the point that the serious man reaches his goals.
(c) Nihilism is the recognition of the sub-man that he has no purpose outside of what has been defined for him.
(d) Nihilism is the point at which existentialists realize that reality is not framed by their thoughts.

3. What is the point at which existentialism is opposed to dialectic materialism according to Beauvoir?
(a) When the proletariat universally works to eliminate its class.
(b) Where intellectual and bourgeois revolutions are considered suspiciously by the proletariat.
(c) Where revolt, need, hope, rejection, and desire are only the resultants of external forces.
(d) Where subjectivity and objectivity become equally determined by the revolt of the proletariat.

4. Why does Beauvoir suggest that the idea of the ambiguity of existence should not be considered absurd?
(a) Because to consider the idea that human existence is ambiguous is to deny that human existence can ever be given a meaning.
(b) Because to consider the ambiguity of existence absurd is to shut down debate that can define human existence.
(c) Because clinging to labeling challenging ideas as absurd only limits intellectual investigation.
(d) Because to consider the ambiguity of existence as absurd is, itself, absurd.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beauvoir identify as the spirit of seriousness?

2. What is a principle that Beauvoir states that an ethics of ambiguity will refuse to deny a priori?

3. How does Beauvoir suggest that the ends can justify the means.

4. How does Beauvoir claim that the child develops the conviction of good and evil?

5. Why does Beauvoir claim that no project can be considered to be purely contemplative?

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