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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 compare women to slaves?
(a) By pointing out that many women choose to be ignorant of the condition of the world.
(b) By pointing out that women create an existence in their minds that escapes the reality of the world around them.
(c) By pointing out that women are subject to the laws, gods, customs, and truths created by males.
(d) By pointing out that women base their success on the contentment of their families.

2. How is Beauvoir asking each one to confirm their existence through the ethics of ambiguity?
(a) By combining mind to matter through projects.
(b) As a means to an end.
(c) By the transcendence of goals.
(d) As a value for all others.

3. In what way does Beauvoir consider nihilistic thinking to be right?
(a) In understanding the future will be marked by violence.
(b) In thinking that the world possesses no justification and that he himself is nothing.
(c) In realizing that peace is punctuated by oppression and revolution.
(d) In understanding the obstacles that come from a complex world.

4. How does Beauvoir claim to be the only means by which the present can retrieve itself?
(a) Through similar events through history.
(b) By holding with an existentialist who has adopted the Aesthetic Attitude.
(c) By transcending itself toward the permanence of future being.
(d) Through politicians who deny obvious truth so as to delay the consequences of their present decisions.

5. Why does Beauvoir claim that no project can be considered to be purely contemplative?
(a) Because projects are contemplated in the present to be completed in the future and become part of the past.
(b) Because an individual is continually projects himself toward something in the future through a project.
(c) Because a project requires putting action to contemplation.
(d) Because projects are contemplated differently by others who act differently from their perspectives.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Beauvoir consider stubbornness in the face of an obstacle that is impossible to overcome?

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

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

4. What does Beauvoir claim defines the "sub-man"?

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

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