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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 identify dualism?
(a) They are thinkers that believe that the only two human values are life and death.
(b) They are thinkers that claim that each individual is destined to live a brief physical life and an eternal spiritual life.
(c) They are thinkers that set to prove that each life has a dual existence in a different dimension.
(d) They are thinkers that establish a hierarchy between body and soul.

2. 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 "ethics of ambiguity" are as solipsistic as is existentialism.
(c) That separate existants can be bound to each other, such as individual freedoms can forge laws valid for all.
(d) That, by definition, "ethics of ambiguity" must remained undefined.

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

4. How does Beauvoir explain the differences between the conditions of Western women from that of children?
(a) Because of the voting privilege of Western societies, the opinions of women must be taken more seriously than children.
(b) The condition of children are forced upon them, but women choose their condition.
(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. What does Beauvoir claim to be the choice that comes to a young man after a long crisis?
(a) He can define his life through his choices, or avoid his choices and slip into nothingness.
(b) 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.
(c) He can escape the stress of his existence or throw himself into the object that defines his goal.
(d) He can accept his ambiguity and move to freedom and ethics, or he can return to the shelters of his childhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Beauvoir explain that Marxists perceive that acts can be regarded as good or bad?

2. How does Beauvoir suggest that Christian charity, Epicurean cult of friendship, and Kantian moralism share the same point of views?

3. What Beauvoir claim to happen to a democratic regime that defends itself by acts of oppression?

4. What does Beauvoir state is the goal at which her freedom aims?

5. What does Beauvoir report to the the qualities of God that establishes moral standards?

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