The Second Sex Quizzes

The Second Sex Quiz

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

Sartre’s existentialism

Platonic myth

Freud’s theory of sexual phases
2 According to de Beauvoir, what most fundamentally guides human values?
Sexuality

Historical trajectory

Transcendence toward being

Biology
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?
Domesticity

Sexuality

Private property

Childbearing
5 Which phase does Freud believe distinguishes men from women?
None

Oral

Anal

Genital
6 What does Plato believe about the origins of humanity?
Naturally two different genders

One being split in two genders

Three genders exist

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

The proletariat

African Americans

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

Freedom

Intelligence

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

Sartre

Hegel

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

Rome

Greece

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

Lack of unions

Suffrage

Low wages
12 What are two requirements for women to achieve true freedom?
Suffrage and representation

Abstract rights and concrete possibilities

Family and career

Education and wealth
13 Where does de Beauvoir believe feminism has been most complete?
Soviet Russia

The United States

Revolutionary France

Ancient Greece
14 Which religion does de Beauvoir cite as institutionalizing the fear of women's sexuality?
Islam

Catholicism

Judaism

Christianity
15 What two factors explain the evolution of women's condition in society?
Development of education and writing of laws

Family values and religious beliefs

Invention of new technology and institutionalization of private property

Participation in production and freedom from reproductive slavery
16 What analogy does de Beauvoir use to explain women’s struggles in the labor force?
Jewish ghettos in France

Black labor force in the US

Soldiers at war

Child labor in Africa
17 What ideology does de Beauvoir credit for favoring women's liberation?
Anarchism

Socialism

Conservatism

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

Farming

Healthcare

Home
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?
Revolutionary and anarchist

Democratic and individualist

Socialist and feminist

Romantic and cultural
21 What kinds of women achieved artistic prominence in the 18th century?
Elite

Unmarried

Well-educated

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

Courtesan

Painter

Prostitute
23 How could women achieve abstract rights before the 19th century?
Writing novels

Protesting

Working

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

Religion

Private property

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

Fear

Acceptance

Hate

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