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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 influence does Beauvoir claim revolt has on the world.
(a) Revolt does not wish to be integrated, but to break the world's continuity.
(b) Revolt affects even those who have adopted the Aesthetic Attitude and forces the realities of the world on every man.
(c) Revolt rises from a detachment from things and eventually leads to oppression through the desire to control things.
(d) Revolt rises from the recognition of oppression and brings freedom to the world.

2. What does Beauvoir claim can come to people who are filled with the horror of defeat?
(a) They would keep themselves from ever doing anything.
(b) The face the transcendent moment at which they must face failure or freedom to act.
(c) They must go back to their most recent success to retrace the steps of purpose.
(d) They reach the need to recall experience to make purpose of life.

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

4. How does Beauvoir characterize the fate of the "sub-man"?
(a) His ethics and facticity have no consequences, therefore they are nonexistent.
(b) He finds nothing to appreciate and in turn no one appreciates him.
(c) He does not recognize his facticity, therefore he does not experience the triumph of freedom through the development of his ethics.
(d) He makes his way across a world deprived of meaning toward a death which merely confirm his long negation of himself.

5. What is a principle that Beauvoir states that an ethics of ambiguity will refuse to deny a priori?
(a) That the most important element of "ethics of ambiguity" is to disallow them from defining the conduct of those outside their understanding.
(b) That, by definition, "ethics of ambiguity" must remained undefined.
(c) That separate existants can be bound to each other, such as individual freedoms can forge laws valid for all.
(d) That "ethics of ambiguity" are as solipsistic as is existentialism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beauvoir call pursuing the movement toward an end despite the obstacle of certain failure?

2. What are the two clans that Beauvoir claims to come from oppression?

3. What are the four items that Beauvoir identifies as the "indefinite conquests of existence over being"?

4. How does Beauvoir explain that the Marxist paradox lends to her theory the scheme of man is ambiguous?

5. How does Beauvoir explain how the passionate man different from the adventurer man?

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