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

Freud’s theory of sexual phases

Sartre’s existentialism

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

Historical trajectory

Sexuality

Transcendence toward being

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

The Other

The Self

The Object

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

Domesticity

Private property

Childbearing

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

Anal

Oral

None

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

Three genders exist

Gender is a construct

Naturally two different genders

One being split in two genders
7 To what groups does de Beauvoir NOT compare women, given their condition as the oppressed in society?

The proletariat

Children

African Americans

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

Freedom

Wealth

Happiness

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

Freud

Sartre

Proudhon

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

Rome

Persia

Egypt

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

Low wages

Suffrage

Lack of unions

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

Suffrage and representation

Education and wealth

Family and career

Abstract rights and concrete possibilities
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

Judaism

Catholicism

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

Invention of new technology and institutionalization of private property

Participation in production and freedom from reproductive slavery

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?

Black labor force in the US

Child labor in Africa

Soldiers at war

Jewish ghettos in France
17 What ideology does de Beauvoir credit for favoring women's liberation?

Conservatism

Liberalism

Socialism

Anarchism
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?

Impossible to say

Improved

Worsened

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

Romantic and cultural

Socialist and feminist

Democratic and individualist

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

Actresses

Elite

Well-educated

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

Courtesan

Actress

Prostitute

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

Protesting

Writing novels

Escaping the family

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

Reproduction

Religion

War

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

Love

Hate

Acceptance

Fear

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