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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 that a slave can exercise freedom?
(a) By remaining ignorant of the consciousness of his slavery.
(b) By showing expertise in a particular field to make his existence more valuable to the slave owner.
(c) By creating a world of freedom in their minds.
(d) By using their influence over other slaves to overthrow the slave owner.

2. In what way does Beauvoir suggest Marxists practice free will?
(a) By identifying the bourgeois.
(b) By acting and preaching to others to act.
(c) By choosing to participate or deny proletariat revolution.
(d) By choosing to become Marxists.

3. What idea regarding ethics does Beauvoir attribute to Hegel?
(a) "Ethics is self-contained because reality is self-contained."
(b) "There is an ethics only if there is a problem to solve."
(c) "Ethics is irrelevant because they only affect manipulation of a material universe."
(d) "Ethics are the creation of minds that fear facing problems."

4. What does Beauvoir indicate can sometimes happen when there is a failure of the serious?
(a) Sometimes the serious man will recognize his ambiguity and act freely to establish an ethic to help him through his failure.
(b) Sometimes the serious man will revert to his childhood and depend on others for his purpose.
(c) It can bring about a radical disorder.
(d) The serious man will have to rely on what training he had as a child to deal with failure.

5. Upon what does Beauvoir claim that a child's freedom is based?
(a) Upon ignorance that makes all his decisions meaningless.
(b) Upon his willingness to trust adults without question.
(c) Upon adults whom he is only to respect and obey.
(d) Upon his inability to grasp the concept of cause and effect.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Beauvoir define the relationship of the "sub-man" to ethics and facticity?

2. How does Beauvoir compare Marxism to existentialism?

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

4. Beauvoir claims that dualists use their basic belief to establish what idea?

5. How does Beauvoir characterize the response of Western women when the structures that shelter them seem to be in danger?

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