Daily Quiz: On Simone de Beauvoir

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Name her groundbreaking critique of patriarchy, often regarded as foundational feminist literature, which was listed on the Vatican’s ‘index of forbidden books’.

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Name her work depicting the attempts of post-Second World War intellectuals to leave their ‘educated elite’ status and engage in political activism, which won her the French literary prize Prix Goncourt.

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Name the only play written by Simone de Beauvoir.

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Name her treatise published in 1947, which deals with themes including freedom, oppression, and responsibility, expounding on the idea that ‘human freedom requires the freedom of others for it to be actualised’.

Answer :  The ethics of ambiguity 

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Name her novel which opens with the quote: “Each conscience seeks the death of the other” from another philosopher, Hegel.

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Name this American philosopher who claims to have based her theory of gender performance on Beauvoir’s idea that one is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.