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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. According to Beauvoir, how is freedom present within the drama of choice?
(a) Only in the form of contingency.
(b) In the moment before consequences are evident.
(c) Within the analysis that leads to a decision.
(d) Before the realization that a choice must be made.

2. What is the illustration Beauvoir uses to prove her assertion of stubbornness in the face of impossibility?
(a) The sapling that grows through a sidewalk.
(b) The deaths that preceded the first successful climb of Mt. Everest.
(c) The development of the airplane.
(d) Beating her fist upon a stone.

3. How does Beauvoir claim that a spontaneous action, or flight, can be converted into will?
(a) By recognizing the effects of the spontaneous act on the physical world.
(b) By accepting the consequences of the spontaneous act.
(c) By assuming the project positively.
(d) By evaluating the usefulness of the spontaneous act.

4. In what way does Beauvoir suggest Marxists practice free will?
(a) By identifying the bourgeois.
(b) By acting and preaching to others to act.
(c) By choosing to become Marxists.
(d) By choosing to participate or deny proletariat revolution.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beauvoir claim defines the "sub-man"?

2. How does Beauvoir define materialist philosophers?

3. What does Beauvoir claim a child can do due to his state of security?

4. What does Beauvoir claim can come to people who are filled with the horror of defeat?

5. How does Beauvoir characterize the response of Western women when the structures that shelter them seem to be in danger?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Beauvoir claim that spontaneity affects man's freedom?

2. How does Beauvoir characterize Dualists?

3. To what does Beauvoir credit the development of many different philosophical world views?

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

5. With what quote from Descartes does Beauvoir begin Section II?

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

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

8. How does Beauvoir claim one can avoid nihilism?

9. How does Beauvoir explain that willing bad is possible?

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

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