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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 Aesthetic Attitude?
(a) The belief that man can only be free by separating from others.
(b) The objection that man cannot will himself free because the individual is almost always free by being around others.
(c) The attitude that freedom can only be willed while being around others.
(d) The objection that only the isolated man is free.

2. At what time does Beauvoir suggest that children begin to notice the contradictions, hesitations and weaknesses of adults?
(a) At the time the become interested in the opposite sex.
(b) Adolescence.
(c) The age of accountability.
(d) When they begin to see how their actions affect the world around them.

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

4. According to Beauvoir, if every man is free:
(a) He cannot will himself free.
(b) His will must remain free.
(c) He is free to oppress the freedom of others.
(d) He must work to free other men.

5. What does Beauvoir recognize as the paradox that faces a man who is willing to fight for a valid cause?
(a) Man can only assure better life by causing death to those who would destroy it.
(b) Only sacrifice can lead to achievement.
(c) The only way a man can make an important gain is to sacrifice something equally important.
(d) No action can be generated for man without its being immediately generated against men.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Beauvoir claim the condition of the world changes from child to adolescence?

2. How does Beauvoir illustrate how ambiguity affected Christianity?

3. In the challenge for those who suffer more than one oppressor, what answer does Beauvoir offer?

4. How does Beauvoir suggest that a child console himself when confronted with personal imperfection?

5. How does Beauvoir explain the differences between the conditions of Western women from that of children?

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