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. During their stage of freedom, how does Beauvoir claim that a child sees adults?
(a) As physically threatening.
(b) As divinities.
(c) As benevolent dictators that provide their needs.
(d) As fanciful projections of their uninhibited minds.

2. What does Beauvoir claim defines the "sub-man"?
(a) The man whose lack of being is defined by his choice.
(b) The man who avoids choice and lives a lack of being.
(c) The man who rejects the passion of his human condition and lives according to the world than has been established before him.
(d) The man who lives below the potential of his abilities because of choice.

3. How does Beauvoir compare women to slaves?
(a) By pointing out that women base their success on the contentment of their families.
(b) By pointing out that women create an existence in their minds that escapes the reality of the world around them.
(c) By pointing out that many women choose to be ignorant of the condition of the world.
(d) By pointing out that women are subject to the laws, gods, customs, and truths created by males.

4. What idea regarding ethics does Beauvoir attribute to Hegel?
(a) "Ethics is irrelevant because they only affect manipulation of a material universe."
(b) "Ethics are the creation of minds that fear facing problems."
(c) "Ethics is self-contained because reality is self-contained."
(d) "There is an ethics only if there is a problem to solve."

5. How does Beauvoir claim that the child develops the conviction of good and evil?
(a) Through punishments, prizes, words of praise or blame.
(b) Through observation and learning.
(c) Through pain and healing.
(d) Through joy and disappointment.