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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 explain how the passionate man different from the adventurer man?
(a) The passionate man attaches his adventure to unmovable ethics.
(b) The passionate man fails to fulfill his subjectivity rather than the content of the subjectivity.
(c) The passionate man has a focus guiding his adventures.
(d) The passionate man acts from internal desires.

2. What does Beauvoir identify as the irony of the serious man?
(a) He pursues his serious goals but finds them to be insufficient once they are achieved.
(b) He considers his goals to be serious whereas the free man considers them to be trivial.
(c) He claims that he freely chose his goals, but they are extensions of the structures that formed his childhood.
(d) He defends the seriousness of his goals while disputing the seriousness of the goals of others.

3. How does Beauvoir claim the condition of the world changes from child to adolescence?
(a) When a child begins to realize he cannot create his own existence, he becomes accountable for his thoughts.
(b) The adolescent realizes his decisions have affects.
(c) The individual begins to realize that matter has significant influence on thought.
(d) The world is no longer ready made, but must be made.

4. What idea regarding ethics does Beauvoir attribute to Hegel?
(a) "Ethics is self-contained because reality is self-contained."
(b) "There is an ethics only if there is a problem to solve."
(c) "Ethics are the creation of minds that fear facing problems."
(d) "Ethics is irrelevant because they only affect manipulation of a material universe."

5. How does Beauvoir explain how goals supplant freedom in the life of the serious man?
(a) The serious man rejects all independent thought for the sake of achieving his goal.
(b) Goals become the means of defining the existence of the serious man at the cost of freedom and individually defining his ethics.
(c) Rather than finding freedom in choosing goals, the serious man chooses goals to avoid his freedom.
(d) The serious man is defined by his goal not by his choices or acts.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Beauvoir identify dualism?

3. How does Beauvoir suggest that a child console himself when confronted with personal imperfection?

4. At what point does Beauvoir claim an individual has the ability to decide and choose?

5. What does Beauvoir report to be the child's situation?

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