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

Biology

Historical trajectory

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

The Self

The Object

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

Domesticity

Private property

Sexuality
5 Which phase does Freud believe distinguishes men from women?
Anal

Oral

Genital

None
6 What does Plato believe about the origins of humanity?
Naturally two different genders

One being split in two genders

Gender is a construct

Three genders exist
7 To what groups does de Beauvoir NOT compare women, given their condition as the oppressed in society?
Jews

The proletariat

Children

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

Happiness

Freedom

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

Proudhon

Hegel

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

Greece

Egypt

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

Reproduction vs production

Lack of unions

Low wages
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?
Soviet Russia

The United States

Ancient Greece

Revolutionary France
14 Which religion does de Beauvoir cite as institutionalizing the fear of women's sexuality?
Christianity

Islam

Judaism

Catholicism
15 What two factors explain the evolution of women's condition in society?
Family values and religious beliefs

Participation in production and freedom from reproductive slavery

Development of education and writing of laws

Invention of new technology and institutionalization of private property
16 What analogy does de Beauvoir use to explain women’s struggles in the labor force?
Jewish ghettos in France

Child labor in Africa

Black labor force in the US

Soldiers at war
17 What ideology does de Beauvoir credit for favoring women's liberation?
Anarchism

Liberalism

Socialism

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

Home

Farming

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

Impossible to say

Improved

Stayed the same
20 Which 18th century values advanced women's liberation?
Romantic and cultural

Democratic and individualist

Revolutionary and anarchist

Socialist and feminist
21 What kinds of women achieved artistic prominence in the 18th century?
Unmarried

Elite

Well-educated

Actresses
22 What profession did NOT become more socially prominent for women in the 18th century?
Actress

Painter

Prostitute

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

Working

Writing novels

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

War

Private property

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

Acceptance

Love

Hate

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