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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beauvoir suggest of movements whose means of achieving a goal contradicts the goal?

2. Upon what does Beauvoir claim existence is based?

3. How does Beauvoir suggest that Christian charity, Epicurean cult of friendship, and Kantian moralism share the same point of views?

4. According to Beauvoir, upon what do politicians rely to sustain their influence over individuals?

5. What does Beauvoir claim is revealed through art?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Beauvoir claim living as an existentialist would affect men?

2. How does Beauvoir characterize freedom that is won through denying freedom to others?

3. What are the two meanings that Beauvoir gives for the future?

4. How does Beauvoir relate death to life?

5. How does Beauvoir dispute the idea that individual freedom does not lead to anarchy?

6. How do societies attempt to help individuals hold onto the present according to Beauvoir?

7. What is the example of the conservative that Beauvoir uses to illustrate how tyrants will attempt to prevent revolt?

8. Why does Beauvoir suggest man's life must always be an energetic striving?

9. What two views of how history affects the future does Beauvoir note?

10. How does Beauvoir show that the complexity of the world affects those who are fighting for a cause?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Beauvoir examines two meanings of the word "future". Examine the two meanings and Beauvoir's contexts for those two meanings and her criticisms against the way they are applied. Choose one of Beauvoir's meanings for "future" and detail how it shapes your attitude toward your projects and efforts to develop your free will.

Essay Topic 2

Examine Beauvoir's views on how science, art, technology (technics), and philosophy can either add to or detract from freedom. After the general examination of the four, choose one and detail how Beauvoir's points are proven in modern applications.

Essay Topic 3

Beauvoir uses three stages of human development (childhood, adolescence, and adulthood) to explain the progression to free will. Summarize Beauvoir's thoughts on these three stages and give personal examples that prove her observations.

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