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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 the child's life begin actually become serious according to Beauvoir?
(a) By learning which erases his ignorance.
(b) Through following the examples of role models.
(c) By restricting his actions to those that gain rewards.
(d) By feeling the consequences of poorly thought decisions.
2. To what does Beauvoir compare the "sub-man"?
(a) A common laborer.
(b) A bad painter.
(c) A dull book.
(d) An unpublished writer.
3. What does Beauvoir claim comes, "...between the past which no longer is and the future which is not yet,..."?
(a) This moment when (the individual) exists.
(b) The point at which time ceases to move.
(c) The crossroads of reality.
(d) The ever changing moment of the present.
4. What relationship does Beauvoir identify between ethics and facticity?
(a) Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
(b) Ethics cannot exist without facticity upon which to base them.
(c) Ethics is the ambiguous manipulation of facticity.
(d) Ethics are the spawn of facticity.
5. To what does Beauvoir compare the "sub-man" in his relationship to ethics and facticity?
(a) To trees and pebbles which are not aware that they exist.
(b) To the cowardly writer who will not publish and therefore does not exist.
(c) To the purposeless book that never gets taken from the shelf.
(d) To the faceless laborer who's production has more purpose than does he.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Beauvoir claim to be the relationship between the serious and nihilism?
2. What type of man does Beauvoir identify as being nihilistic?
3. What is the point at which existentialism is opposed to dialectic materialism according to Beauvoir?
4. What does Beauvoir claim to protect the child from the risk of existence?
5. How does Beauvoir claim that the child develops the conviction of good and evil?
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