This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, The Positive Aspect of Ambiguity, Sections 1-3, The Aesthetic Attitude, Freedom and Liberation, The Antinomies of Action.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Beauvoir claim a child can do due to his state of security?
(a) He can do with impunity whatever he likes.
(b) He can choose a direction in which he desires to remove his ignorance.
(c) He can create the world he wants to exist.
(d) He can have all his needs provided without labor.

2. What does Beauvoir claim to be the basis upon which a man decides upon what he wants to be?
(a) Upon the basis of moral choice.
(b) Upon the basis of the most beneficial consequences of his acts.
(c) Upon the basis of his ethical code providing the greatest benefit.
(d) Upon the basis of what he has been.

3. What does Beauvoir indicate can sometimes happen when there is a failure of the serious?
(a) The serious man will have to rely on what training he had as a child to deal with failure.
(b) It can bring about a radical disorder.
(c) Sometimes the serious man will revert to his childhood and depend on others for his purpose.
(d) Sometimes the serious man will recognize his ambiguity and act freely to establish an ethic to help him through his failure.

4. How does Beauvoir claim the condition of the world changes from child to adolescence?
(a) The world is no longer ready made, but must be made.
(b) When a child begins to realize he cannot create his own existence, he becomes accountable for his thoughts.
(c) The adolescent realizes his decisions have affects.
(d) The individual begins to realize that matter has significant influence on thought.

5. To what conclusion to Beauvoir arrive regarding Sartre's internal choices that are affected by personal passions?
(a) Since Sartre considers man as driven by internal passions, he brings to question the existence of the physical world and its causes and effects.
(b) Since man is directed by his eternal passions, the external force of God has no influence in Sartre's existentialism.
(c) Sartre's man eliminates the needs for external moral influence by following passions that eventually lead to personal benefit.
(d) Since passions and their choices are internal, there are no objective standards by which to define their usefulness.