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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do ethics of ambiguity avoid being solipsistic?
(a) Because goals often transcend the life of the individual who initiates them.
(b) Because the means of an end often affect more individual than the achievement of the end itself.
(c) By the fact that the individual is defined only by his relationship to the world and other individuals.
(d) Because it demands that individuals engage matter in the pursuit of projects.

2. How does Beauvoir suggest an individual can find tranquility of the serious?
(a) By considering their projects to be divinely inspired so their seriousness has eternal significance.
(b) By occupying their present only with serious matter.
(c) By rejecting the sloppy thinking that the present oppression will vanish on its own.
(d) By projecting himself toward a Future-Thing and submerge their freedom it it.

3. What influence does Beauvoir claim revolt has on the world.
(a) Revolt rises from the recognition of oppression and brings freedom to the world.
(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 does not wish to be integrated, but to break the world's continuity.

4. What three considerations an individual make before acting are abstract, according to Beauvoir?
(a) Is the action practical, is it good, is it bad.
(b) Does the action lead to a goal, is it transcendent, will it affect the self.
(c) Is the action ambiguous, is it mental, is it physical.
(d) Is the action possible, is it future-oriented, will it affect the self.

5. How does Beauvoir define the present?
(a) The present is not a potential past, it is the moment of choice and action.
(b) The present is the point at which the will meets freedom.
(c) The present is the moment in which thought meets matter.
(d) The present is when the Aesthetic Attitude meets its most significant challenge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What quote from Saint-Just does Beauvoir use to point out the paradox to the fight for freedom?

2. What contradiction does Beauvoir suggest will come to those who fight for a cause due to the complexity of the world?

3. According to Beauvoir, what stops an individual's life from appearing as a negligible thing?

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

5. How does Beauvoir claim a goal is defined?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Beauvoir claim prevents the future from being considered a harmonious development?

2. How does Beauvoir characterize freedom that is won through denying freedom to others?

3. What is the one solution that Beauvoir offers to the oppressed?

4. What does Beauvoir mean with the phrase "Antinomies of Action"?

5. How does Beauvoir show that the complexity of the world affects those who are fighting for a cause?

6. How does ambiguity affect man when he faces failure and outrageousness, according to Beauvoir?

7. What is the contradiction that Beauvoir states regarding the difficulty of living the in the modern age?

8. How does Beauvoir characterize the world at the beginning of Section III?

9. How does Beauvoir define the Aesthetic Attitude?

10. How does Beauvoir claim that science can find truth?

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