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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 is the point at which existentialism is opposed to dialectic materialism according to Beauvoir?
(a) Where subjectivity and objectivity become equally determined by the revolt of the proletariat.
(b) Where intellectual and bourgeois revolutions are considered suspiciously by the proletariat.
(c) Where revolt, need, hope, rejection, and desire are only the resultants of external forces.
(d) When the proletariat universally works to eliminate its class.

2. How does Beauvoir introduce the role of God in the discussion of ethics?
(a) By pointing out that all ethics end up being an effort to define God.
(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 suggesting the wide views of the nature of God actually makes God ambiguous.

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

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

5. What type of man does Beauvoir identify as being nihilistic?
(a) The man who disputes the seriousness of another man's goals to the point that his goals are regarded as generally useless as a consequence.
(b) The point at which the serious man realizes the pursuit of his goals have been made at the expense of his freedom.
(c) When a man who faces failure becomes conscious of being unable to be anything and decides to be nothing.
(d) The man who sees the futility of his goals and realizes he has missed the benefits of his ambiguity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beauvoir call pursuing the movement toward an end despite the obstacle of certain failure?

2. What relationship does Beauvoir identify between ethics and facticity?

3. According to Beauvoir, how is freedom present within the drama of choice?

4. How does the child's life begin actually become serious according to Beauvoir?

5. How does Beauvoir characterize the response of Western women when the structures that shelter them seem to be in danger?

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