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 to protect the child from the risk of existence?
(a) His budding existentialist belief that only thoughts matter.
(b) His inability to comprehend the consequences of decisions.
(c) The ceiling which human generations have built over his head.
(d) His obedience to adults.

2. What does Beauvoir claim comes, "...between the past which no longer is and the future which is not yet,..."?
(a) The point at which time ceases to move.
(b) The crossroads of reality.
(c) The ever changing moment of the present.
(d) This moment when (the individual) exists.

3. At what point does Beauvoir declare the death of an individual is not a failure?
(a) If his death leads to the victory of his cause.
(b) If the cause for which he died is carried on by his survivors.
(c) When it is integrated into a project which surpasses the limits of life.
(d) When the cause for which he died preserves freedom for all.

4. What irony does Beauvoir suggest contributes to the most optimistic ethics.
(a) That they have all begun by emphasizing the element of failure involved in the condition of man.
(b) That all ethics eventually lead man to rationalize violations of their ethics.
(c) That although they seek to lift man to utopia, the eventually lead man to distopia.
(d) That although ethics are pursued to define man's existence, they always lead to ambiguity.

5. What does Beauvoir define as the drama of original choice?
(a) That it has both cause and effect.
(b) That its affects are ambiguous.
(c) That it goes on moment by moment for an entire lifetime.
(d) That it justifies the positions of existentialists.