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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 claim the condition of the world changes from child to adolescence?
(a) The adolescent realizes his decisions have affects.
(b) The individual begins to realize that matter has significant influence on thought.
(c) When a child begins to realize he cannot create his own existence, he becomes accountable for his thoughts.
(d) The world is no longer ready made, but must be made.

2. What role does time play what Beauvoir identifies as the ability to will oneself free?
(a) Time allows the accumulation of spontaneous acts to define their direction.
(b) The individual uses time to manipulate the physical world to exercise his freedom.
(c) The goal of freedom is pursued and confirmed in time.
(d) Time is required for the individual to understand that he is free.

3. 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 blaming his problem on another child.
(c) By denying the flaw and moving to his next goal.
(d) By pinning his hopes on the future.

4. What is the point at which existentialism is opposed to dialectic materialism according to Beauvoir?
(a) Where intellectual and bourgeois revolutions are considered suspiciously by the proletariat.
(b) When the proletariat universally works to eliminate its class.
(c) Where subjectivity and objectivity become equally determined by the revolt of the proletariat.
(d) Where revolt, need, hope, rejection, and desire are only the resultants of external forces.

5. What does Beauvoir claim comes of the man who does not use his the necessary instruments to escape the lie of his serious life that prevents his freedom?
(a) He is condemned to living a life in which all his ethics, morality, and decisions are made for him.
(b) He slips back into the defined existence of a child.
(c) He becomes a "sub-man" who has no more purpose in existing than pebbles or trees.
(d) He is no longer a man, but a father, a boss, a member of the Christian Church or the Communist party.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Beauvoir consider stubbornness in the face of an obstacle that is impossible to overcome?

2. What does Beauvoir seek to prove regarding man's mastery of the world?

3. What does Beauvoir state is the goal at which her freedom aims?

4. To what conclusion to Beauvoir arrive regarding Sartre's internal choices that are affected by personal passions?

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

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