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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 a detachment from things and eventually leads to oppression through the desire to control things.
(c) Revolt rises from the recognition of oppression and brings freedom to the world.
(d) Revolt does not wish to be integrated, but to break the world's continuity.

2. In what way does Beauvoir suggest Marxists practice free will?
(a) By acting and preaching to others to act.
(b) By identifying the bourgeois.
(c) By choosing to participate or deny proletariat revolution.
(d) By choosing to become Marxists.

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

4. What does Beauvoir claim comes of the man who does not use his the necessary instruments to escape the lie of his serious life that prevents his freedom?
(a) He is condemned to living a life in which all his ethics, morality, and decisions are made for him.
(b) He becomes a "sub-man" who has no more purpose in existing than pebbles or trees.
(c) He slips back into the defined existence of a child.
(d) He is no longer a man, but a father, a boss, a member of the Christian Church or the Communist party.

5. When does Beauvoir claim that science acquires meaning?
(a) When it is seen as a movement toward freedom.
(b) When science explains material properties of present conditions.
(c) When scientific processes prove phenomena that transcend time.
(d) When science can cross the boundaries of the physical to the aesthetic.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the "sub-man" submerge his freedom, according to Beauvoir?

2. At what point does Beauvoir claim an individual has the ability to decide and choose?

3. What example did Beauvoir use to show how those who fight for a cause will come to accept certain contradictions.

4. How does Beauvoir illustrate her example proves her point that, "festivals stop the movement of transcendence?"

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

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