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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. Beauvoir claims that critics of existentialism claim that it is solipsistic. What is solipsism?
(a) The theory that life is replicated on many planets in many worlds.
(b) The theory that life is nothing more than a creation in the mind of God.
(c) The theory that only the self (mind) exists or can be proven to exist.
(d) The theory that only the physical life exists and matter is eternal.

2. In what way does Beauvoir suggest Marxists practice free will?
(a) By identifying the bourgeois.
(b) By choosing to become Marxists.
(c) By choosing to participate or deny proletariat revolution.
(d) By acting and preaching to others to act.

3. What role does time play what Beauvoir identifies as the ability to will oneself free?
(a) Time is required for the individual to understand that he is free.
(b) The goal of freedom is pursued and confirmed in time.
(c) The individual uses time to manipulate the physical world to exercise his freedom.
(d) Time allows the accumulation of spontaneous acts to define their direction.

4. What does Beauvoir claim matters to the serious man?
(a) Using his ambiguity to shape his ethics.
(b) Setting a track to achieve a predetermined goal.
(c) Subjecting himself to the project that defines his ambiguity to himself.
(d) Being able to lose himself in the nature of the object which he prefers to himself.

5. How does Beauvoir compare Marxism to existentialism?
(a) Marxism rejects the idea of authority in the development of organized masses.
(b) Marxism rejects the idea of inhuman objectivity and locates itself in the tradition of Kant and Hegel.
(c) Marxism rejects the moral foundations of law that are rooted in the protection of public property.
(d) Marxism establishes moral thought through mass rejection of the moral order.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beauvoir require for an individual to genuinely desire an end in the present?

2. What does Beauvoir identify as the irony of the serious man?

3. What does Beauvoir claim to protect the child from the risk of existence?

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

5. How does Beauvoir suggest that a child console himself when confronted with personal imperfection?

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