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 explain that Marxists perceive that acts can be regarded as good or bad?
(a) Only when systems are formed in which each gives according to his ability.
(b) Through the revolt of a class which define aims and goals from a which a new state appears as desirable.
(c) Only when systems are designed that each takes according to his need.
(d) Only through the destruction of private property.

2. What comes to the individual at the point he begins to notice the conflicts of the adult world, according to Beauvoir?
(a) The individual has the choice of holding to existentialist myths or accepting his ambiguity.
(b) The individual faces the daunting challenge of pursuing ethics that have none of the inconsistencies that have plagued societies through history.
(c) The individual must at last assume his subjectivity.
(d) The individual can pursue freedom or seriousness.

3. What does Beauvoir claim comes, "...between the past which no longer is and the future which is not yet,..."?
(a) The crossroads of reality.
(b) The ever changing moment of the present.
(c) This moment when (the individual) exists.
(d) The point at which time ceases to move.

4. How does Beauvoir define the relationship of the "sub-man" to ethics and facticity?
(a) The "sub-man" rejects the ambiguity of ethics as influences over his facticity.
(b) The "sub-man" rejects ethics and feels only the facticity of his existence.
(c) The "sub-man" accepts ethics as the facticity of his existence as unchangeable.
(d) The "sub-man" considers ethics and facticity as interchangeable.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beauvoir identify as the spirit of seriousness?

2. How does Beauvoir consider stubbornness in the face of an obstacle that is impossible to overcome?

3. How does Beauvoir suggest a past accomplishment can be made relevant in the present?

4. What quote from Lenin does Beauvoir use to demonstrate the Marxist revolution has human meaning?

5. How does Beauvoir accuse Marxists of accepting moral superiority?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Beauvoir detail as the consequences of failure to the serious man?

2. What are two descriptions that Beauvoir gives to man at the beginning of Part I, Ambiguity and Freedom?

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

4. How does Beauvoir characterize Dualists?

5. How does Beauvoir characterize Materialists?

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

7. How does Beauvoir define the child's world?

8. What does Beauvoir note has been claimed of the nature of existentialism as a philosophy?

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

10. How does Beauvoir claim that man can rise to a higher moral freedom?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 880 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample