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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 suggest becomes the intellectual responsibility of existentialists who reject God?
(a) He has the responsibility of defining how works for self-benefit are also beneficial to his environs.
(b) He bears responsibility for a world which is not the work of strange power.
(c) He bears the responsibility to show his works for self-benefit do not affect others in his environs.
(d) He bears the responsibility to prove the lives of others have not affects on himself, starting with the union of his parents that brought his existence.

2. How does the "sub-man" submerge his freedom, according to Beauvoir?
(a) He ignores the ambiguity of his existence.
(b) He refuses subjectivity in favor of predictability.
(c) He accepts the ethics and expectations of society.
(d) He avoids actions that have consequences.

3. How does Beauvoir introduce the role of God in the discussion of ethics?
(a) By suggesting the wide views of the nature of God actually makes God ambiguous.
(b) By considering the endless pursuit of pure ethics and the failure to achieve such places the power of judgement in the hands of God.
(c) By pointing out that Sartre's view of existentialism ends with man attempting to make himself God.
(d) By pointing out that all ethics end up being an effort to define God.

4. What quote from Lenin does Beauvoir use to demonstrate the Marxist revolution has human meaning?
(a) "We say that our morality is entirely subordinated to the interests of the proletariat's class struggle."
(b) "The entire purpose of training, educating and teaching the youth of today should be to imbue them with communist ethics."
(c) "Our action only has meaning if it brings down the influence of the bourgeois."
(d) "I call any action useful to the party moral action; I call it immoral if it is harmful to the party."

5. What does Beauvoir identify as the spirit of seriousness?
(a) Leaving the fallacy of materialists that only matter matters.
(b) Facing the reality that the fate of all is the grave.
(c) To consider values as ready-made things.
(d) Leaving the fallacy of existentialism that only thought matters.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Beauvoir explain that the serious man becomes a dangerous tyrant?

2. What idea regarding ethics does Beauvoir attribute to Hegel?

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

4. What does Beauvoir claim matters to the serious man?

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

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