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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 show how her example of moving through obstacles prove her arguments?
(a) She explained that Adalai Stevenson believed his intellectualism would over come Dwight Eisenhower's popular reputation in two presidential elections.
(b) She explained that Sisyphus was condemned to rolling the boulder up the mountain despite his the fact that it would roll back down once he got it to the top.
(c) She asserted that Van Gogh, despite being institutionalized, integrated his his past as a painter and continued to communicate through his talent.
(d) She pointed out that Hitler had desires to rule the world in spite of the fact that he did not have the ability to take his navy outside of the North Sea.

2. How does Beauvoir explain that the Marxist paradox lends to her theory the scheme of man is ambiguous?
(a) She points out that , "He wants to be, and to the extent that the coincides with this wish, he fails."
(b) She suggests that, although, "Marxists deride traditional moral codes that forbid theft and adultery as being 'bourgeois', she points out that strict adherence to Marxist dogma is a moral imperative for revolution."
(c) She shows that, "Morality is based on denial, while work and labor is based upon acquisition."
(d) She agrees that, "One even the most devoted proletariat has what he needs, he begins feeding his desires."

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

4. According to Beauvoir, what is the goal of dualist teachings to their disciples?
(a) To see the physical life as ambiguous.
(b) To eliminate ambiguity from extraterrestrial life.
(c) To eliminate ambiguity from the after life.
(d) To escape ambiguity.

5. What claim of existentialists does Beauvoir offer in defense of detractors to existentialism?
(a) Bouvoir claims that existentialists believe that the world is willed by man, insofar as his will expresses his genuine reality.
(b) Bouvoir claims that existentialists help to accentuate the strengths of other theories.
(c) Bouvoir claims that existentialists offer their detractors important challenges to prove their theories.
(d) Bouvoir claims that existentialists give focus to the importance of matter in reality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What role does time play what Beauvoir identifies as the ability to will oneself free?

2. How does Beauvoir explain how goals supplant freedom in the life of the serious man?

3. What is the focus of the adventurer?

4. What does Beauvoir claim to be the basis upon which a man decides upon what he wants to be?

5. How does Beauvoir compare women to slaves?

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