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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. In the face of emerging violence of man's growing mastery of the world, what does Beauvoir suggest to individuals who seek to navigate it?
(a) To discontinue to attempt to keep up with the changes going on in the world.
(b) To seek to understand God's role in the growing environment of violence.
(c) To assume and know the condition of our fundamental ambiguity.
(d) To accept the insignificance of the individual as a means of embracing individual ambiguity.

2. 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) The serious man will have to rely on what training he had as a child to deal with failure.
(c) Sometimes the serious man will revert to his childhood and depend on others for his purpose.
(d) It can bring about a radical disorder.

3. Beauvoir claims that dualists use their basic belief to establish what idea?
(a) To diminish the part of the self that cannot be saved.
(b) To seek to find life on other planets.
(c) To embrace nihilism.
(d) To guide their adherents to prepare exclusively for the after life.

4. How does the "sub-man" submerge his freedom, according to Beauvoir?
(a) He refuses subjectivity in favor of predictability.
(b) He ignores the ambiguity of his existence.
(c) He avoids actions that have consequences.
(d) He accepts the ethics and expectations of society.

5. How does Beauvoir claim that Marxists consider man's actions to be valid?
(a) Only if the actions eliminate private property.
(b) Only if the actions support the revolution of the proletariat.
(c) Only if the actions are in opposition of the bourgeois.
(d) Only if the man has not helped initiate his action by an internal movement or through free will.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Beauvoir explain the differences between the conditions of Western women from that of children?

2. What comes to the individual at the point he begins to notice the conflicts of the adult world, according to Beauvoir?

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

4. How does Beauvoir define materialist philosophers?

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

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