1. What is the illustration Beauvoir uses to prove her assertion of stubbornness in the face of impossibility?
(a) The deaths that preceded the first successful climb of Mt. Everest.
(b) The development of the airplane.
(c) Beating her fist upon a stone.
(d) The sapling that grows through a sidewalk.

2. What role does time play what Beauvoir identifies as the ability to will oneself free?
(a) Time is required for the individual to understand that he is free.
(b) The goal of freedom is pursued and confirmed in time.
(c) The individual uses time to manipulate the physical world to exercise his freedom.
(d) Time allows the accumulation of spontaneous acts to define their direction.

3. What does Beauvoir claim to be the affect of rejecting any extrinsic justification for internal choices?
(a) Such rejection would lead to the erosion of any social order that makes choice useful.
(b) Such rejection also removes the motivations upon passions are fueled.
(c) Such rejection would also reject the original pessimism which she seeks to address with her work.
(d) Such rejection also eliminates any standard by which choices are determined to be useful.

4. To what does Beauvoir compare the "sub-man" in his relationship to ethics and facticity?
(a) To the faceless laborer who's production has more purpose than does he.
(b) To trees and pebbles which are not aware that they exist.
(c) To the cowardly writer who will not publish and therefore does not exist.
(d) To the purposeless book that never gets taken from the shelf.

5. What does Beauvoir report to the the qualities of God that establishes moral standards?
(a) A moral code from God constricts believers to live within boundaries.
(b) A moral code given from God removes the demands from human minds to create one.
(c) A moral code from God contributes to establishing a moral consensus that directs thought.
(d) A God can pardon, efface and compensate.