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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. If an individual does not inform a slave of his oppression, what does Beauvoir suggest of their position regarding tyranny?
(a) The individual who remains silent regarding tyranny becomes a tyrant himself.
(b) The individual who remains silent regarding tyranny assumes the Aesthetic Attitude.
(c) The individual who remains silent regarding tyranny is complicit in tyranny.
(d) The individual who remains silent regarding tyranny loses his will to be free.

2. What does Beauvoir claim is revealed through art?
(a) Art reveals the transitory as an absolute.
(b) Art reveals that ambiguous principles of truth and beauty can occupy time and space.
(c) Art reveals that aesthetic contemplation at some point must make contact with time and space.
(d) Art reveals the aesthetic qualities of the will of freedom.

3. How does Beauvoir establish the relationship between things and man in human action?
(a) Things validate the actions of man through being the products of projects of man.
(b) This sustain the actions of man by presenting themselves as obstacles.
(c) Things remain through history after the actions of man bring them to reality.
(d) Things are the result of the actions of man and help man transcend time and space.

4. 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 rejecting the sloppy thinking that the present oppression will vanish on its own.
(c) By occupying their present only with serious matter.
(d) By projecting himself toward a Future-Thing and submerge their freedom it it.

5. How does Beauvoir illustrate how ambiguity affected Christianity?
(a) She showed how poverty allowed a break from salvation through indulgences.
(b) She illustrated that the Reformation challenged the seriousness of the Catholic Church with the Christian Spirit.
(c) She showed how works bound to the dead law were replaced with faith and charity.
(d) She showed how interpretation of scripture was replaced by researching scripture.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Beauvoir, if every man is free:

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

3. Since human life is finite, with what does Beauvoir suggest the individual should concern himself?

4. What three considerations an individual make before acting are abstract, according to Beauvoir?

5. At what point does Beauvoir declare the death of an individual is not a failure?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Beauvoir criticize the claim that life is absurdity?

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

3. How do societies attempt to help individuals hold onto the present according to Beauvoir?

4. What are the two meanings that Beauvoir gives for the future?

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

6. What does Beauvoir identify as one of the chief objections leveled against existentialism with regard to freedom?

7. How does Beauvoir dispute the idea that individual freedom does not lead to anarchy?

8. Why does Beauvoir write that the only way way that the oppressed can fulfill his freedom is through revolt?

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

10. Why does Beauvoir suggest man's life must always be an energetic striving?

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