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

2. To what does Beauvoir compare the "sub-man"?
(a) A bad painter.
(b) A common laborer.
(c) An unpublished writer.
(d) A dull book.

3. What does Beauvoir claim can come to people who are filled with the horror of defeat?
(a) They must go back to their most recent success to retrace the steps of purpose.
(b) They would keep themselves from ever doing anything.
(c) The face the transcendent moment at which they must face failure or freedom to act.
(d) They reach the need to recall experience to make purpose of life.

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

5. To what does Beauvoir compare the presence of freedom within the drama of choice?
(a) The calm before the storm.
(b) The adolescent who sees the world constructed for him as a child is corrupt.
(c) The arbitrariness of the grace distributed by God in Calvinistic Doctrine.
(d) The historian who chooses threads that take him to the original cause.