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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 idea regarding ethics does Beauvoir attribute to Hegel?
(a) "Ethics is irrelevant because they only affect manipulation of a material universe."
(b) "There is an ethics only if there is a problem to solve."
(c) "Ethics is self-contained because reality is self-contained."
(d) "Ethics are the creation of minds that fear facing problems."
2. What does Beauvoir claim defines the "sub-man"?
(a) The man who lives below the potential of his abilities because of choice.
(b) The man who rejects the passion of his human condition and lives according to the world than has been established before him.
(c) The man whose lack of being is defined by his choice.
(d) The man who avoids choice and lives a lack of being.
3. What is the focus of the adventurer?
(a) To satisfy a desire for existence in a present, subjective, abstract moment.
(b) To define life by attempting to will himself free.
(c) To live in defiance of oppression for ambiguous goals.
(d) To enter the future by leaving memorable acts for the past.
4. What does Beauvoir claim comes, "...between the past which no longer is and the future which is not yet,..."?
(a) The point at which time ceases to move.
(b) The ever changing moment of the present.
(c) The crossroads of reality.
(d) This moment when (the individual) exists.
5. How does Beauvoir consider stubbornness in the face of an obstacle that is impossible to overcome?
(a) As the beginning of innovation.
(b) As that trial that brings experience.
(c) As stupidity.
(d) As the seed of innocent hope.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Beauvoir compare women to slaves?
2. How does Beauvoir explain that the Marxist paradox lends to her theory the scheme of man is ambiguous?
3. What does Beauvoir report to be the child's situation?
4. What does Beauvoir claim can come to people who are filled with the horror of defeat?
5. Who does Beauvoir use as an example of moving through such obstacles?
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