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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 suggest that a child console himself when confronted with personal imperfection?
(a) By holding to ignorance so as not to have to explain his predicament.
(b) By pinning his hopes on the future.
(c) By blaming his problem on another child.
(d) By denying the flaw and moving to his next goal.

2. To what does Beauvoir compare the "sub-man"?
(a) An unpublished writer.
(b) A common laborer.
(c) A dull book.
(d) A bad painter.

3. What does Beauvoir require for an individual to genuinely desire an end in the present?
(a) An expected manipulation of the material world through the desired end.
(b) A fulfillment of spontaneous desires over time.
(c) A recognition of consequences that will come through the desired end.
(d) A desire for that end throughout his entire existence.

4. What does Beauvoir report to be the child's situation?
(a) He faces the reality that his freedom is continually reduced by his growing knowledge.
(b) He is subject to accept all things based upon what others tell him.
(c) He is cast into a universe which he has not helped to establish and appears as an absolute to which he can only submit.
(d) His ambiguity is compounded by his ignorance of right and wrong.

5. How does Beauvoir define materialist philosophers?
(a) Those who "conceive all matter as eternal".
(b) Those who see "no value in thought".
(c) Those who have "striven to reduce mind to matter".
(d) Those who "see no life after this one".

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Descartes credit man's unhappiness to, according to Beauvoir?

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

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

4. How does Beauvoir show how her example of moving through obstacles prove her arguments?

5. What does Beauvoir claim comes of the man who does not use his the necessary instruments to escape the lie of his serious life that prevents his freedom?

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