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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 does Beauvoir claim matters to the serious man?
(a) Being able to lose himself in the nature of the object which he prefers to himself.
(b) Setting a track to achieve a predetermined goal.
(c) Using his ambiguity to shape his ethics.
(d) Subjecting himself to the project that defines his ambiguity to himself.

2. What does Beauvoir note to be the objection of oppressors who are facing overthrow for the cause of freedom?
(a) Overthrowing the order of oppressors threatens to subject all to barbarism.
(b) Those who overthrow an oppressor are only seeking the power to oppress.
(c) By overthrowing their oppression, the freedom of oppressors is being deprived.
(d) Overthrowing oppressors will bring neophytes to incompetently administer the principles of law and justice.

3. How does the type of future facing individual humans affect civilizations such as Ancient Greece and Rome, according to Beauvoir?
(a) They make their futures more secure by seeking to provide freedom to their citizens.
(b) They all come to an end.
(c) They all survive by effectively winning wars.
(d) Their future is secured by eradicating the future of their enemies.

4. How does Beauvoir consider stubbornness in the face of an obstacle that is impossible to overcome?
(a) As that trial that brings experience.
(b) As the seed of innocent hope.
(c) As stupidity.
(d) As the beginning of innovation.

5. What does Beauvoir recognize as the paradox that faces a man who is willing to fight for a valid cause?
(a) The only way a man can make an important gain is to sacrifice something equally important.
(b) Only sacrifice can lead to achievement.
(c) Man can only assure better life by causing death to those who would destroy it.
(d) No action can be generated for man without its being immediately generated against men.

Short Answer Questions

1. How will an oppressor use history to justify his oppression, according to Beauvoir?

2. What is the future that Beauvoir sees for herself?

3. How does Beauvoir suggest that a child console himself when confronted with personal imperfection?

4. What does Beauvoir suggest becomes the intellectual responsibility of existentialists who reject God?

5. What is the point at which existentialism is opposed to dialectic materialism according to Beauvoir?

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