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

2. What does Beauvoir state is the goal at which her freedom aims?
(a) "...(C)onquering existence across the always inadequate density of being."
(b) "Rejecting the verdicts of doubters and seeing the possibility of achieving ends through obstacles."
(c) "Seeing the doors of defeat before initiating and act."
(d) "Understanding the difference between delusion, denial, and stone pounding to affirm true existence."

3. How does Beauvoir define materialist philosophers?
(a) Those who see "no value in thought".
(b) Those who "see no life after this one".
(c) Those who have "striven to reduce mind to matter".
(d) Those who "conceive all matter as eternal".

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

5. How does Beauvoir define nihilism?
(a) Nihilism is the recognition of the sub-man that he has no purpose outside of what has been defined for him.
(b) Nihilism is disappointed seriousness which has been turned back upon itself.
(c) Nihilism is the point at which existentialists realize that reality is not framed by their thoughts.
(d) Nihilism is the point of nothingness that is felt at the point that the serious man reaches his goals.

Short Answer Questions

1. During their stage of freedom, how does Beauvoir claim that a child sees adults?

2. What comes to the individual at the point he begins to notice the conflicts of the adult world, according to Beauvoir?

3. What quote from Lenin does Beauvoir use to demonstrate the Marxist revolution has human meaning?

4. What claim of existentialists does Beauvoir offer in defense of detractors to existentialism?

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

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