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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 characterize the purpose of the body?
(a) It becomes the barometer that marks the move from child to adolescent to mature adult.
(b) It expresses our relationship to the world.
(c) It becomes the vessel that evaluates the harm or benefit of consequences.
(d) It enjoys the pleasures of freedom before consequences are manifest.

2. How does Beauvoir explain that a child, himself, is not serious?
(a) A child is not aware that his fate is the grave.
(b) A child's thoughts are often fanciful and unrealistic.
(c) A child is not affected by the knowledge of things that have been established before him.
(d) A child is allowed to play and expend his existence freely to passionately pursue and joyfully attain goals which he has set up for himself.

3. How does Beauvoir suggest a child has a state of security?
(a) By virtue of his very insignificance.
(b) By virtue of his hopes for the future.
(c) By virtue of the fantasy world he creates in his mind.
(d) By virtue of the adults who control his life.

4. Who does Beauvoir use as an example of moving through such obstacles?
(a) Sisyphus.
(b) Adalai Stevenson.
(c) Vincent Van Gogh.
(d) Hitler.

5. To what does Beauvoir compare the presence of freedom within the drama of choice?
(a) The calm before the storm.
(b) The historian who chooses threads that take him to the original cause.
(c) The arbitrariness of the grace distributed by God in Calvinistic Doctrine.
(d) The adolescent who sees the world constructed for him as a child is corrupt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beauvoir suggest becomes the intellectual responsibility of existentialists who reject God?

2. According to Beauvoir, what is the goal of dualist teachings to their disciples?

3. Upon what does Beauvoir claim that a child's freedom is based?

4. At what point does Beauvoir claim an individual has the ability to decide and choose?

5. How does Beauvoir explain what Descartes meant when he said that the freedom of man is infinite, but this power is limited?

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