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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 Marxism to existentialism?
(a) Marxism establishes moral thought through mass rejection of the moral order.
(b) Marxism rejects the idea of authority in the development of organized masses.
(c) Marxism rejects the idea of inhuman objectivity and locates itself in the tradition of Kant and Hegel.
(d) Marxism rejects the moral foundations of law that are rooted in the protection of public property.

2. 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 seek to find life on other planets.
(c) To embrace nihilism.
(d) To diminish the part of the self that cannot be saved.

3. How does Beauvoir claim that "The Ethics of Ambiguity" compare to the individualism of Christian ethics?
(a) Christian ethics dispenses salvation to the individual as the Ethics of Ambiguity depends on the individual accepting the nature of their ambiguity.
(b) Both Christian ethics and the Ethics of Ambiguity depend upon individual devotion.
(c) Both Christian ethics and the Ethics of Ambiguity have their greatest influence on individual practice.
(d) Christian salvation is provided by an individual source as are the Ethics of Ambiguity.

4. What Beauvoir claim to happen to a democratic regime that defends itself by acts of oppression?
(a) It is embracing the ambiguity of existence.
(b) It is pursuing political goals.
(c) It betrays its virtues.
(d) It faces the possibility of becoming oppressive.

5. How does Beauvoir suggest violent action against oppression becomes a contradiction to the cause of freedom?
(a) Because conquering enemies requires reducing the enemies to things and those who fight oppression must reduce themselves to things as well.
(b) Because those who fight oppression must oppress those who fight with them to command the battle.
(c) Because those who see oppressors as being beneficial will believe they fight for freedom in defense of an oppressor.
(d) Because those who fight oppression generally desire the power of those they attempt to overthrow.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Beauvoir establish the relationship between things and man in human action?

3. What comes of the man of action who does not recognize the ambiguity that appears during the pursuit of his goal, according to Beauvoir?

4. How does Beauvoir introduce the role of God in the discussion of ethics?

5. 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?

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