1. Beauvoir claims that critics of existentialism claim that it is solipsistic. What is solipsism?
(a) The theory that only the self (mind) exists or can be proven to exist.
(b) The theory that life is nothing more than a creation in the mind of God.
(c) The theory that life is replicated on many planets in many worlds.
(d) The theory that only the physical life exists and matter is eternal.

2. Who does Beauvoir use as an example of moving through such obstacles?
(a) Vincent Van Gogh.
(b) Hitler.
(c) Sisyphus.
(d) Adalai Stevenson.

3. How does Beauvoir characterize the response of Western women when the structures that shelter them seem to be in danger?
(a) They become detached and unemotional.
(b) They drive themselves further into the subjection that makes them child like.
(c) They become confused and bewildered to the point of despair.
(d) They become harder, more bitter and even more furious or cruel than their masters.

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

5. How does Beauvoir explain what Descartes meant when he said that the freedom of man is infinite, but this power is limited?
(a) The individual man has the power to follow his desires until his pursuit is obstructed by a more power man.
(b) That man's mind has no limits in thought, but his physical body does not have the ability to follow the thoughts.
(c) That man is free to believe all things, but achieving them is subject to the physical universe.
(d) That the will is defined only by raising obstacles and by the contingency of certain obstacles that let themselves be conquered and others that do not.