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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Personal Freedom and Others.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Beauvoir claim comes, "...between the past which no longer is and the future which is not yet,..."?
(a) The point at which time ceases to move.
(b) This moment when (the individual) exists.
(c) The crossroads of reality.
(d) The ever changing moment of the present.

2. How does Beauvoir suggest that a child console himself when confronted with personal imperfection?
(a) By blaming his problem on another child.
(b) By denying the flaw and moving to his next goal.
(c) By pinning his hopes on the future.
(d) By holding to ignorance so as not to have to explain his predicament.

3. How does Beauvoir suggest a past accomplishment can be made relevant in the present?
(a) By tracing the affects of the act from the past through to the present.
(b) By comparing present acts to the acts of the past.
(c) By keeping a record of all accomplishments to reflect upon those experiences with every decision.
(d) By ceaselessly returning to it and justify it as part of the project with which the individual is currently involved.

4. How does Beauvoir explain what Descartes meant when he said that the freedom of man is infinite, but this power is limited?
(a) The individual man has the power to follow his desires until his pursuit is obstructed by a more power man.
(b) That man is free to believe all things, but achieving them is subject to the physical universe.
(c) That man's mind has no limits in thought, but his physical body does not have the ability to follow the thoughts.
(d) That the will is defined only by raising obstacles and by the contingency of certain obstacles that let themselves be conquered and others that do not.

5. How does Beauvoir explain that a child, himself, is not serious?
(a) A child is allowed to play and expend his existence freely to passionately pursue and joyfully attain goals which he has set up for himself.
(b) A child is not aware that his fate is the grave.
(c) A child's thoughts are often fanciful and unrealistic.
(d) A child is not affected by the knowledge of things that have been established before him.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way does Beauvoir suggest Marxists practice free will?

2. What comes to the individual at the point he begins to notice the conflicts of the adult world, according to Beauvoir?

3. What does Beauvoir identify as the paradox of Marxist thought?

4. At what time does Beauvoir suggest that children begin to notice the contradictions, hesitations and weaknesses of adults?

5. How does Beauvoir explain how the passionate man different from the adventurer man?

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