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Simone de Beauvoir Trivia Questions

How much do you really know about Simone de Beauvoir? Below are 8 true or false statements. Click each one to reveal the answer and explanation.

1.

Beauvoir had a lifelong open relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre, but never married him.

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They were lifelong partners and intellectual collaborators, but deliberately avoided marriage, seeing it as a bourgeois institution.

2.

Beauvoir was raised in a strict Catholic household that later rejected religion.

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She was devout as a child but became an atheist by age 14, rejecting the religious hypocrisy she observed in her family.

3.

Simone de Beauvoir won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964.

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She was nominated but never won. Sartre won in 1964, but Beauvoir herself was famously snubbed by the Nobel committee.

4.

Beauvoir wrote a novel that won France's prestigious Prix Goncourt.

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Her 1954 novel 'The Mandarins' won the Prix Goncourt, France's top literary prize, partly based on her intellectual circle's postwar struggles.

5.

She was a key figure in drafting the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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Beauvoir had no direct role in drafting the declaration. That was led by Eleanor Roosevelt and others. Beauvoir's influence was more in philosophy and literature.

6.

She co-founded the feminist group 'Choisir la Cause des Femmes' with other activists.

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Beauvoir was a key figure in the French women's movement, but 'Choisir' was founded by Gisèle Halimi. Beauvoir later joined its initiatives.

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Her book 'The Second Sex' was originally banned in France upon publication.

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It was never banned in France, though it faced censorship in some other countries and was placed on the Vatican's Index of Prohibited Books.

8.

Beauvoir was a competitive chess champion in her youth.

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There is no record of her being a chess champion. She excelled in academics, especially philosophy, and earned top marks in her agrégation.

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