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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. At what point does Beauvoir claim an individual has the ability to decide and choose?
(a) When the usefulness of spontaneous acts are identifiable by the individual.
(b) When he responds to the consequences of spontaneous acts.
(c) When the moments of his life begin to be organized into behavior.
(d) When he can see and manipulate the affects of spontaneous acts on the physical world.

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

3. At what time does Beauvoir suggest that children begin to notice the contradictions, hesitations and weaknesses of adults?
(a) When they begin to see how their actions affect the world around them.
(b) At the time the become interested in the opposite sex.
(c) Adolescence.
(d) The age of accountability.

4. What does Beauvoir identify as the paradox of Marxist thought?
(a) "Marxist deny accepting morality while condemning all movements that do not accept their moral view."
(b) "The point at which the proletariat overthrows the bourgeois, they immediately attempt to become bourgeois."
(c) "From the moment a man recognizes himself as free, he is prohibited from wishing for anything."
(d) "Marxist deny desires for material things while devoting their revolution to taking material things."

5. How does Beauvoir suggest that a child console himself when confronted with personal imperfection?
(a) By holding to ignorance so as not to have to explain his predicament.
(b) By denying the flaw and moving to his next goal.
(c) By pinning his hopes on the future.
(d) By blaming his problem on another child.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beauvoir report comes to the individual at the time the world changes in his perspective?

2. How does Beauvoir explain that Marxists perceive that acts can be regarded as good or bad?

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

4. Beauvoir claims that critics of existentialism claim that it is solipsistic. What is solipsism?

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

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