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

2. How does Beauvoir show how her example of moving through obstacles prove her arguments?
(a) She explained that Adalai Stevenson believed his intellectualism would over come Dwight Eisenhower's popular reputation in two presidential elections.
(b) She pointed out that Hitler had desires to rule the world in spite of the fact that he did not have the ability to take his navy outside of the North Sea.
(c) She asserted that Van Gogh, despite being institutionalized, integrated his his past as a painter and continued to communicate through his talent.
(d) She explained that Sisyphus was condemned to rolling the boulder up the mountain despite his the fact that it would roll back down once he got it to the top.

3. What does Beauvoir claim to be the affect of rejecting any extrinsic justification for internal choices?
(a) Such rejection also removes the motivations upon passions are fueled.
(b) Such rejection would also reject the original pessimism which she seeks to address with her work.
(c) Such rejection would lead to the erosion of any social order that makes choice useful.
(d) Such rejection also eliminates any standard by which choices are determined to be useful.

4. To what does Beauvoir compare the "sub-man"?
(a) A common laborer.
(b) A bad painter.
(c) An unpublished writer.
(d) A dull book.

5. By quoting Dostoyevsky ("If God does not exist, then everything is permitted"), what examination does Beauvoir make?
(a) The role of an external moral code in extinguishing passions.
(b) The role of the existence of God in defining the existence of man and the world.
(c) The role of the physical world on the development of a moral code.
(d) The role of a dualistic spiritual existence in directing passion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of future does Beauvoir recognize of humans?

2. How does Beauvoir claim that the individual with the Aesthetic Attitude regard his role in history?

3. How does Beauvoir suggest a child has a state of security?

4. Beauvoir claims that critics of existentialism claim that it is solipsistic. What is solipsism?

5. What does Beauvoir claim to be the violence committed by opponents to the Nazi occupation of France.

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