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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. 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 pointing out that all ethics end up being an effort to define God.
(c) By considering the endless pursuit of pure ethics and the failure to achieve such places the power of judgement in the hands of God.
(d) By pointing out that Sartre's view of existentialism ends with man attempting to make himself God.

2. Who does Beauvoir use as an example of moving through such obstacles?
(a) Vincent Van Gogh.
(b) Sisyphus.
(c) Adalai Stevenson.
(d) Hitler.

3. What is the paradox with which Beauvoir closes Chapter One?
(a) In order to fill his existence, man must assume himself as a being who, "makes himself a lack of being so that there might be being."
(b) Man as an individual is, "At once alone in himself which makes up the mass of universality."
(c) "Man cannot know existence without first knowing his nothingness."
(d) Man is a being that, "in order to know the existence of achievement he must face the nothingness of failure."

4. What does Beauvoir suggest becomes the intellectual responsibility of existentialists who reject God?
(a) He bears the responsibility to show his works for self-benefit do not affect others in his environs.
(b) He has the responsibility of defining how works for self-benefit are also beneficial to his environs.
(c) 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.
(d) He bears responsibility for a world which is not the work of strange power.

5. What does Beauvoir report comes to the individual at the time the world changes in his perspective?
(a) He can begin to control the consequences of his acts.
(b) He has the moment of moral choice.
(c) The world is no longer ready made.
(d) He faces the choice of repeating past mistakes or breaking from them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beauvoir claim to be the choice that comes to a young man after a long crisis?

2. What does Beauvoir claim comes of the man who does not use his the necessary instruments to escape the lie of his serious life that prevents his freedom?

3. What does Beauvoir claim a child can do due to his state of security?

4. Beauvoir claims that critics of existentialism claim that it is solipsistic. What is solipsism?

5. To what does Beauvoir compare the "sub-man"?

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