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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 explain that artists can betray their aim with their aesthetic justification?
(a) By creating a project that removes them from their detachment and makes them part of history.
(b) By the fact that their attempt to withdraw for the cause of aesthetics frequently lead to works that are used by the serious for their projects.
(c) By facing the reality that their epiphanies found in their contemplation require action of creation before they can be seriously considered.
(d) By addressing an evil with a work for which the beauty is more regarded than the message.

2. Why does Beauvoir claim that some individuals have lives that slip into an infantile world?
(a) Because they never leave the fanciful world they create in their minds.
(b) Because the labor they choose prevents them from using their minds.
(c) Because they discover they are incompetent in the direction they choose for their lives.
(d) Because they are kept in a state of servitude and ignorance and have no means of breaking the ceiling which is over their heads.

3. What does Beauvoir claim an individual must do to conquer an enemy with violence?
(a) Reduce the enemy and the self to things.
(b) Adopt the Aesthetic Attitude.
(c) Recognize that the use of violence will be met with the same.
(d) Subject freedom to demands for violence.

4. 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 believe that the world is willed by man, insofar as his will expresses his genuine reality.
(c) Bouvoir claims that existentialists give focus to the importance of matter in reality.
(d) Bouvoir claims that existentialists offer their detractors important challenges to prove their theories.

5. Beauvoir claims that dualists use their basic belief to establish what idea?
(a) To guide their adherents to prepare exclusively for the after life.
(b) To diminish the part of the self that cannot be saved.
(c) To seek to find life on other planets.
(d) To embrace nihilism.

Short Answer Questions

1. For whom do Beauvoir and Marx agree that the cause of freedom is most urgent?

2. Who does Beauvoir use as an example of moving through such obstacles?

3. How does Beauvoir claim an individual can put himself on the plane of the universal and the infinite?

4. How does Beauvoir explain what Descartes meant when he said that the freedom of man is infinite, but this power is limited?

5. How does Beauvoir claim that a spontaneous action, or flight, can be converted into will?

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