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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Personal Freedom and Others.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what conclusion to Beauvoir arrive regarding Sartre's internal choices that are affected by personal passions?
(a) Since Sartre considers man as driven by internal passions, he brings to question the existence of the physical world and its causes and effects.
(b) Sartre's man eliminates the needs for external moral influence by following passions that eventually lead to personal benefit.
(c) Since man is directed by his eternal passions, the external force of God has no influence in Sartre's existentialism.
(d) Since passions and their choices are internal, there are no objective standards by which to define their usefulness.

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

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

4. How does Beauvoir explain the differences between the conditions of Western women from that of children?
(a) Children have no instrument to attack the civilization which oppresses them, but women have their charm and guile.
(b) The condition of children are forced upon them, but women choose their condition.
(c) Western women have left the life of children to accept the serious life.
(d) Because of the voting privilege of Western societies, the opinions of women must be taken more seriously than children.

5. Beauvoir claims that dualists use their basic belief to establish what idea?
(a) To guide their adherents to prepare exclusively for the after life.
(b) To seek to find life on other planets.
(c) To diminish the part of the self that cannot be saved.
(d) To embrace nihilism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beauvoir claim to be the relationship between the serious and nihilism?

2. How does Beauvoir compare southern slaves to children?

3. What explanation does Beauvoir give to assert that existentialist thought helps to build community.

4. How does Beauvoir claim that Marxists consider man's actions to be valid?

5. How does Beauvoir explain what Descartes meant when he said that the freedom of man is infinite, but this power is limited?

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