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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. How does Beauvoir claim that the child develops the conviction of good and evil?
(a) Through joy and disappointment.
(b) Through pain and healing.
(c) Through observation and learning.
(d) Through punishments, prizes, words of praise or blame.

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

3. According to Beauvoir, what is the goal of dualist teachings to their disciples?
(a) To eliminate ambiguity from extraterrestrial life.
(b) To see the physical life as ambiguous.
(c) To escape ambiguity.
(d) To eliminate ambiguity from the after life.

4. What does Beauvoir claim to be the choice that comes to a young man after a long crisis?
(a) He can escape the stress of his existence or throw himself into the object that defines his goal.
(b) He either turns back toward the world of his parents and teachers or he adheres to the values which are new but seem to him just as sure.
(c) He can accept his ambiguity and move to freedom and ethics, or he can return to the shelters of his childhood.
(d) He can define his life through his choices, or avoid his choices and slip into nothingness.

5. To what does Beauvoir compare the presence of freedom within the drama of choice?
(a) The calm before the storm.
(b) The adolescent who sees the world constructed for him as a child is corrupt.
(c) The arbitrariness of the grace distributed by God in Calvinistic Doctrine.
(d) The historian who chooses threads that take him to the original cause.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Beauvoir characterize the purpose of the body?

2. What does Beauvoir claim matters to the serious man?

3. What does Beauvoir claim comes of the man who does not use his the necessary instruments to escape the lie of his serious life that prevents his freedom?

4. During their stage of freedom, how does Beauvoir claim that a child sees adults?

5. What does Beauvoir claim to be the basis upon which a man decides upon what he wants to be?

(see the answer key)

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