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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. How does Beauvoir define the present?
(a) The present is not a potential past, it is the moment of choice and action.
(b) The present is the moment in which thought meets matter.
(c) The present is when the Aesthetic Attitude meets its most significant challenge.
(d) The present is the point at which the will meets freedom.

2. How does Beauvoir define materialist philosophers?
(a) Those who "conceive all matter as eternal".
(b) Those who see "no value in thought".
(c) Those who "see no life after this one".
(d) Those who have "striven to reduce mind to matter".

3. 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) The face the transcendent moment at which they must face failure or freedom to act.
(c) They reach the need to recall experience to make purpose of life.
(d) They must go back to their most recent success to retrace the steps of purpose.

4. What quote from Lenin does Beauvoir use to demonstrate the Marxist revolution has human meaning?
(a) "The entire purpose of training, educating and teaching the youth of today should be to imbue them with communist ethics."
(b) "Our action only has meaning if it brings down the influence of the bourgeois."
(c) "We say that our morality is entirely subordinated to the interests of the proletariat's class struggle."
(d) "I call any action useful to the party moral action; I call it immoral if it is harmful to the party."

5. What are some of the causes that Beauvoir points out that oppressors will claim to defend in their battles against those who try to overthrow them?
(a) Oppressors will fight to defend duty, honor, and country.
(b) Oppressors will fight for peace, freedom, and morality.
(c) Oppressors will fight for prosperity, social stability, and security.
(d) Oppressors will fight in the name of civilization, institutions, monuments, and virtues.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. During their stage of freedom, how does Beauvoir claim that a child sees adults?

3. According to Beauvoir, what is the goal of dualist teachings to their disciples?

4. What does Beauvoir claim to protect the child from the risk of existence?

5. To what does Beauvoir compare the "sub-man"?

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