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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. What does Beauvoir claim defines the "sub-man"?
(a) The man who lives below the potential of his abilities because of choice.
(b) The man whose lack of being is defined by his choice.
(c) The man who avoids choice and lives a lack of being.
(d) The man who rejects the passion of his human condition and lives according to the world than has been established before him.

2. What does Beauvoir identify as the certain truth contained in the nihilist attitude?
(a) The nihilist attitude realizes the unreliability of man.
(b) The nihilist attitude is prepared for obstacles that always come from a complex world.
(c) The nihilist attitude understands the finite nature of life.
(d) In the nihilist attitude one experiences the ambiguity of the human condition.

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

4. What does Beauvoir claim to be the affect of rejecting any extrinsic justification for internal choices?
(a) Such rejection would also reject the original pessimism which she seeks to address with her work.
(b) Such rejection also eliminates any standard by which choices are determined to be useful.
(c) Such rejection would lead to the erosion of any social order that makes choice useful.
(d) Such rejection also removes the motivations upon passions are fueled.

5. What does Beauvoir claim comes of an accomplished act that is left behind by an individual?
(a) It has a diminished affect as time and spontaneous acts have different consequences.
(b) It becomes nothing more than a fact.
(c) The act remains as an experience that lends to the development of the will.
(d) The affects of the act continue, but the act becomes forgotten.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Beauvoir compare Marxism to existentialism?

2. What is the illustration Beauvoir uses to prove her assertion of stubbornness in the face of impossibility?

3. What does Beauvoir report to the the qualities of God that establishes moral standards?

4. To what does Beauvoir compare the presence of freedom within the drama of choice?

5. 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?

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