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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 to protect the child from the risk of existence?
(a) His obedience to adults.
(b) His inability to comprehend the consequences of decisions.
(c) The ceiling which human generations have built over his head.
(d) His budding existentialist belief that only thoughts matter.

2. What does Beauvoir identify as the paradox of Marxist thought?
(a) "Marxist deny desires for material things while devoting their revolution to taking material things."
(b) "The point at which the proletariat overthrows the bourgeois, they immediately attempt to become bourgeois."
(c) "From the moment a man recognizes himself as free, he is prohibited from wishing for anything."
(d) "Marxist deny accepting morality while condemning all movements that do not accept their moral view."

3. What does Beauvoir define as the drama of original choice?
(a) That it goes on moment by moment for an entire lifetime.
(b) That it has both cause and effect.
(c) That it justifies the positions of existentialists.
(d) That its affects are ambiguous.

4. How does Beauvoir claim that the child develops the conviction of good and evil?
(a) Through pain and healing.
(b) Through observation and learning.
(c) Through punishments, prizes, words of praise or blame.
(d) Through joy and disappointment.

5. What comes to the individual at the point he begins to notice the conflicts of the adult world, according to Beauvoir?
(a) The individual has the choice of holding to existentialist myths or accepting his ambiguity.
(b) The individual can pursue freedom or seriousness.
(c) The individual faces the daunting challenge of pursuing ethics that have none of the inconsistencies that have plagued societies through history.
(d) The individual must at last assume his subjectivity.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Beauvoir claim that a spontaneous action, or flight, can be converted into will?

2. What explanation does Beauvoir give to assert that existentialist thought helps to build community.

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

4. What is the focus of the adventurer?

5. How does Beauvoir explain that Marxists perceive that acts can be regarded as good or bad?

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