Question

3.

Beauvoir compares making a choice of political action to making a scientific hypothesis. How are they similar?

	A.	Both political choices and scientific hypotheses should only be made when we can be sure that they are correct.
	B.	Both political choices and scientific hypotheses primarily have to do with increasing human knowledge.
	C.	Both political choices and scientific hypotheses are basically arbitrary.
	D.	The correctness of the action/hypothesis is not guaranteed in advance, but we make the choice of action or the hypothesis based on the best information we have at present.

4.

What is the difference between ambiguity and absurdity?

	A.	Absurdity has nothing to do with our ethical choices, whereas ambiguity is definitely related to our ethical choices.
	B.	Absurdity claims that the world is never meaningless, whereas ambiguity says that sometimes it is.
	C.	Absurdity says that we have to give meaning to the world, whereas ambiguity claims that the world is always meaningful because God made it that way.
	D.	Absurdity claims that the world will always meaningless, whereas ambiguity says that we can make it meaningful.

5.

What distinguishes the tyrant from the ethical person of good will?

	A.	The tyrant is sure of himself, whereas the ethical person of good will continually questions herself.
	B.	The tyrant prefers death to life, whereas the ethical person of good will prefers life to death.
	C.	The tyrant bases his ethical choices on human interests, whereas the ethical person of good will submits to God's will.
	D.	The tyrant continually questions himself, whereas the ethical person of good will takes the time to figure out how to be completely sure of herself.

Answer 1

3. The correct answer is Option D. The correctness of the action/hypothesis is not guaranteed in advance, but we make the choice of action or the hypothesis based on the best information we have at present.

4. The correct answer is Option D. Absurdity claims that the world will always meaningless, whereas ambiguity says that we can make it meaningful.

5. The correct answer is Option A. The tyrant is sure of himself, whereas the ethical person of good will continually questions herself.