The Second Sex Quizzes

The Second Sex Quiz

1 Which theory does de Beauvoir criticize for promoting the assumption of sexual difference in nature?

Freud’s theory of sexual phases

Engels’ historical materialism

Sartre’s existentialism

Platonic myth
2 According to de Beauvoir, what most fundamentally guides human values?

Transcendence toward being

Historical trajectory

Biology

Sexuality
3 Which of the following are NOT terms de Beauvoir uses to define women in relation to men?

The Self

Inessential

The Object

The Other
4 According to Engels, women’s role today was shaped primarily by which of the following factors?

Domesticity

Sexuality

Private property

Childbearing
5 Which phase does Freud believe distinguishes men from women?

Genital

Oral

None

Anal
6 What does Plato believe about the origins of humanity?

Three genders exist

Naturally two different genders

One being split in two genders

Gender is a construct
7 To what groups does de Beauvoir NOT compare women, given their condition as the oppressed in society?

Children

African Americans

The proletariat

Jews
8 In what terms does de Beauvoir hope to define women’s possibilities in society?

Wealth

Intelligence

Happiness

Freedom
9 Which leftist figure does de Beauvoir criticize for failing to integrate feminism into his political theories?

Hegel

Freud

Sartre

Proudhon
10 In which ancient society does de Beauvoir concede women had unusual levels of freedom after marriage?

Persia

Rome

Egypt

Greece
11 What is one dilemma de Beauvoir does NOT cite for women's struggles in the labor force?

Lack of unions

Suffrage

Low wages

Reproduction vs production
12 What are two requirements for women to achieve true freedom?

Suffrage and representation

Education and wealth

Abstract rights and concrete possibilities

Family and career
13 Where does de Beauvoir believe feminism has been most complete?

The United States

Ancient Greece

Revolutionary France

Soviet Russia
14 Which religion does de Beauvoir cite as institutionalizing the fear of women's sexuality?

Judaism

Christianity

Catholicism

Islam
15 What two factors explain the evolution of women's condition in society?

Participation in production and freedom from reproductive slavery

Invention of new technology and institutionalization of private property

Development of education and writing of laws

Family values and religious beliefs
16 What analogy does de Beauvoir use to explain women’s struggles in the labor force?

Child labor in Africa

Jewish ghettos in France

Soldiers at war

Black labor force in the US
17 What ideology does de Beauvoir credit for favoring women's liberation?

Conservatism

Anarchism

Liberalism

Socialism
18 In which social milieu could women assert themselves in the 18th century?

Healthcare

Farming

Home

Arts
19 How did the French revolution affect women's liberation?

Stayed the same

Improved

Worsened

Impossible to say
20 Which 18th century values advanced women's liberation?

Romantic and cultural

Democratic and individualist

Socialist and feminist

Revolutionary and anarchist
21 What kinds of women achieved artistic prominence in the 18th century?

Actresses

Elite

Unmarried

Well-educated
22 What profession did NOT become more socially prominent for women in the 18th century?

Painter

Prostitute

Actress

Courtesan
23 How could women achieve abstract rights before the 19th century?

Working

Writing novels

Protesting

Escaping the family
24 What big shift led men to take on the role of the "creative force" in society?

War

Private property

Reproduction

Religion
25 How did men react to the female idols worshipped in primitive societies?

Love

Hate

Fear

Acceptance

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