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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Beauvoir claim that Marxists consider man's actions to be valid?
(a) Only if the man has not helped initiate his action by an internal movement or through free will.
(b) Only if the actions support the revolution of the proletariat.
(c) Only if the actions are in opposition of the bourgeois.
(d) Only if the actions eliminate private property.

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

3. What type of man does Beauvoir identify as being nihilistic?
(a) The man who disputes the seriousness of another man's goals to the point that his goals are regarded as generally useless as a consequence.
(b) The man who sees the futility of his goals and realizes he has missed the benefits of his ambiguity.
(c) When a man who faces failure becomes conscious of being unable to be anything and decides to be nothing.
(d) The point at which the serious man realizes the pursuit of his goals have been made at the expense of his freedom.

4. At what time does Beauvoir suggest that children begin to notice the contradictions, hesitations and weaknesses of adults?
(a) The age of accountability.
(b) At the time the become interested in the opposite sex.
(c) When they begin to see how their actions affect the world around them.
(d) Adolescence.

5. How does Beauvoir consider stubbornness in the face of an obstacle that is impossible to overcome?
(a) As that trial that brings experience.
(b) As the seed of innocent hope.
(c) As the beginning of innovation.
(d) As stupidity.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To what does Beauvoir compare the presence of freedom within the drama of choice?

3. What comes to the individual at the point he begins to notice the conflicts of the adult world, according to Beauvoir?

4. Why does Beauvoir claim that some individuals have lives that slip into an infantile world?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Beauvoir characterize Materialists?

2. How does Beauvoir relate nature of man's existence to the past, present, and future in Part I?

3. How does Beauvoir explain that willing bad is possible?

4. How does Beauvoir claim that spontaneity affects man's freedom?

5. What does Beauvoir suggest to be a flaw in Existential philosophy?

6. How does Beauvoir claim that man can disclose being?

7. What does Beauvoir point out as the difference between the passionate man and the adventurer?

8. How does Beauvoir define the serious man?

9. How does Beauvoir claim that the truly free will is produced?

10. How does Beauvoir show that the "sub-man" passes into being a serious man?

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