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

2. What does Beauvoir report comes to the individual at the time the world changes in his perspective?
(a) He faces the choice of repeating past mistakes or breaking from them.
(b) He has the moment of moral choice.
(c) The world is no longer ready made.
(d) He can begin to control the consequences of his acts.

3. What does Beauvoir seek to prove regarding man's mastery of the world?
(a) With each gain to control his surroundings, man feels himself more insignificant within the immense collectivity on the earth.
(b) Man's journey to master the world is a quest to meet God.
(c) Man's mastery of the world is futile, because nature is constantly changing beyond man's ability to contain it.
(d) That the more widespread men attain mastery of the world, the more they find themselves crushed by it.

4. What does Beauvoir report to be the child's situation?
(a) He faces the reality that his freedom is continually reduced by his growing knowledge.
(b) His ambiguity is compounded by his ignorance of right and wrong.
(c) He is subject to accept all things based upon what others tell him.
(d) He is cast into a universe which he has not helped to establish and appears as an absolute to which he can only submit.

5. Although Beauvoir reports that existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity, what does she claim to be existentialism's fundamental flaw?
(a) It is incapable of furnishing any principle for making choices.
(b) Existentialism is essentially taken by individuals seeking to pursue what is normally antisocial and contributes to the violence of mastery of nature.
(c) It is so deeply ambiguous that its true understanding cannot be achieved.
(d) Its true ambiguity is superficial since it has no moral code.