View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 faceless laborer who's production has more purpose than does he.
(d) To the purposeless book that never gets taken from the shelf.

3. How does Beauvoir consider stubbornness in the face of an obstacle that is impossible to overcome?
(a) As the seed of innocent hope.
(b) As stupidity.
(c) As that trial that brings experience.
(d) As the beginning of innovation.

4. What does Beauvoir claim a child can do due to his state of security?
(a) He can create the world he wants to exist.
(b) He can choose a direction in which he desires to remove his ignorance.
(c) He can have all his needs provided without labor.
(d) He can do with impunity whatever he likes.

5. Although Beauvoir reports that existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity, what does she claim to be existentialism's fundamental flaw?
(a) Its true ambiguity is superficial since it has no moral code.
(b) It is so deeply ambiguous that its true understanding cannot be achieved.
(c) It is incapable of furnishing any principle for making choices.
(d) Existentialism is essentially taken by individuals seeking to pursue what is normally antisocial and contributes to the violence of mastery of nature.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Beauvoir suggest a child has a state of security?

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

3. In what way does Beauvoir suggest Marxists practice free will?

4. How does the child's life begin actually become serious according to Beauvoir?

5. What prevents a moral question from presenting itself to the child according to Beauvoir?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Beauvoir claim that man can find truth in his life?

2. What does Beauvoir suggest to be a flaw in Existential philosophy?

3. How does Beauvoir claim that man can disclose being?

4. According to Beauvoir, how does man cast himself into the world?

5. How does Beauvoir claim that the truly free will is produced?

6. According to Beauvoir, how have existentialists defined their philosophy?

7. What does Beauvoir point out as the difference between the passionate man and the adventurer?

8. How does Beauvoir explain the characteristic feature of all ethics?

9. What faces the adolescent who is being liberated from the infantile world, according to Beauvoir?

10. How does Beauvoir characterize Dualists?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 754 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample