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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In what way does Beauvoir consider nihilistic thinking to be right?
(a) In understanding the future will be marked by violence.
(b) In understanding the obstacles that come from a complex world.
(c) In thinking that the world possesses no justification and that he himself is nothing.
(d) In realizing that peace is punctuated by oppression and revolution.

4. What does Beauvoir identify as the spirit of seriousness?
(a) Leaving the fallacy of materialists that only matter matters.
(b) Leaving the fallacy of existentialism that only thought matters.
(c) Facing the reality that the fate of all is the grave.
(d) To consider values as ready-made things.

5. 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) Only through the destruction of private property.
(c) Through the revolt of a class which define aims and goals from a which a new state appears as desirable.
(d) Only when systems are designed that each takes according to his need.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beauvoir claim to be the affect of rejecting any extrinsic justification for internal choices?

2. What does Beauvoir state is the goal at which her freedom aims?

3. What is a principle that Beauvoir states that an ethics of ambiguity will refuse to deny a priori?

4. How does Beauvoir explain the differences between the conditions of Western women from that of children?

5. What does Beauvoir report comes to the individual at the time the world changes in his perspective?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Beauvoir characterize Materialists?

2. How does Beauvoir explain that adult lives can slip by in an infantile world?

3. Upon what basis does Beauvoir suggest that a man decides upon what he wants to be?

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

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

6. How does Beauvoir relate nature of man's existence to the past, present, and future in Part I?

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

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

9. How does Beauvoir characterize Dualists?

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

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