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

2. How does Beauvoir explain the differences between the conditions of Western women from that of children?
(a) The condition of children are forced upon them, but women choose their condition.
(b) Children have no instrument to attack the civilization which oppresses them, but women have their charm and guile.
(c) Western women have left the life of children to accept the serious life.
(d) Because of the voting privilege of Western societies, the opinions of women must be taken more seriously than children.

3. 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 only the self (mind) exists or can be proven to exist.
(c) The theory that life is nothing more than a creation in the mind of God.
(d) The theory that only the physical life exists and matter is eternal.

4. To what does Beauvoir compare the "sub-man"?
(a) A dull book.
(b) An unpublished writer.
(c) A bad painter.
(d) A common laborer.

5. What relationship does Beauvoir identify between ethics and facticity?
(a) Ethics cannot exist without facticity upon which to base them.
(b) Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
(c) Ethics are the spawn of facticity.
(d) Ethics is the ambiguous manipulation of facticity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the point at which existentialism is opposed to dialectic materialism according to Beauvoir?

2. How does Beauvoir characterize the purpose of the body?

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

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

5. How does Beauvoir define nihilism?

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