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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. What does Beauvoir claim a child can do due to his state of security?
(a) He can have all his needs provided without labor.
(b) He can create the world he wants to exist.
(c) He can choose a direction in which he desires to remove his ignorance.
(d) He can do with impunity whatever he likes.

2. By quoting Dostoyevsky ("If God does not exist, then everything is permitted"), what examination does Beauvoir make?
(a) The role of the existence of God in defining the existence of man and the world.
(b) The role of an external moral code in extinguishing passions.
(c) The role of a dualistic spiritual existence in directing passion.
(d) The role of the physical world on the development of a moral code.

3. What relationship does Beauvoir identify between ethics and facticity?
(a) Ethics cannot exist without facticity upon which to base them.
(b) Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
(c) Ethics are the spawn of facticity.
(d) Ethics is the ambiguous manipulation of facticity.

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

5. What does Beauvoir identify as the certain truth contained in the nihilist attitude?
(a) In the nihilist attitude one experiences the ambiguity of the human condition.
(b) The nihilist attitude understands the finite nature of life.
(c) The nihilist attitude realizes the unreliability of man.
(d) The nihilist attitude is prepared for obstacles that always come from a complex world.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Beauvoir compare the "sub-man" in his relationship to ethics and facticity?

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

3. How does Beauvoir claim that a slave can exercise freedom?

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

5. What does Beauvoir require for an individual to genuinely desire an end in the present?

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