1. According to existential feminist Simone de Beauvoir, why are women often satisfied with secondary status to men?
Answer
Women are conditioned to accept they are the lesser gender
Men provide women financial and existential protection
Women define their existence through the needs of others
Men have conditioned women to shun change
2. Why did Frank Lloyd Wright design the Guggenheim Museum in New York as a spiral with a ramp and an open rotunda in the middle?
Answer
Visitors could see what they had viewed and what was to come
Modern art would be viewed in a distinctly modern setting
Visitors would not tire from climbing many stairs
Visitors could see the art in a natural light
3. What is Jean-Paul Sartre's first principle of his atheistic existentialism?
Answer
"Only in suffering can a man make a leap of faith"
"A man's eternal hell is other people"
"The path up and down are one in the same"
"Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself"