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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 does Beauvoir claim is revealed through art?
(a) Art reveals that ambiguous principles of truth and beauty can occupy time and space.
(b) Art reveals that aesthetic contemplation at some point must make contact with time and space.
(c) Art reveals the aesthetic qualities of the will of freedom.
(d) Art reveals the transitory as an absolute.

2. What does Beauvoir claim to be the violence committed by opponents to the Nazi occupation of France.
(a) To chase out their German occupiers.
(b) To defeat the German military.
(c) To create a state of violence that made collaboration impossible.
(d) To inspire the nation to overthrow the occupation.

3. What does Beauvoir claim to be the choice that comes to a young man after a long crisis?
(a) He can escape the stress of his existence or throw himself into the object that defines his goal.
(b) He can define his life through his choices, or avoid his choices and slip into nothingness.
(c) He either turns back toward the world of his parents and teachers or he adheres to the values which are new but seem to him just as sure.
(d) He can accept his ambiguity and move to freedom and ethics, or he can return to the shelters of his childhood.

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

5. How does Beauvoir suggest a past accomplishment can be made relevant in the present?
(a) By comparing present acts to the acts of the past.
(b) By ceaselessly returning to it and justify it as part of the project with which the individual is currently involved.
(c) By keeping a record of all accomplishments to reflect upon those experiences with every decision.
(d) By tracing the affects of the act from the past through to the present.

Short Answer Questions

1. What claim of existentialists does Beauvoir offer in defense of detractors to existentialism?

2. What knowledge comes to the man who has known real loves, real revolts, real desires and real will according to Beauvoir?

3. How does Beauvoir explain that technics (technology) is not objectively justified?

4. What does Descartes credit man's unhappiness to, according to Beauvoir?

5. How does Beauvoir explain that a child, himself, is not serious?

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