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

2. At what point does Beauvoir claim an individual has the ability to decide and choose?
(a) When the usefulness of spontaneous acts are identifiable by the individual.
(b) When the moments of his life begin to be organized into behavior.
(c) When he can see and manipulate the affects of spontaneous acts on the physical world.
(d) When he responds to the consequences of spontaneous acts.

3. How does Beauvoir define materialist philosophers?
(a) Those who "conceive all matter as eternal".
(b) Those who see "no value in thought".
(c) Those who have "striven to reduce mind to matter".
(d) Those who "see no life after this one".

4. In what way does Beauvoir suggest Marxists practice free will?
(a) By identifying the bourgeois.
(b) By choosing to become Marxists.
(c) By choosing to participate or deny proletariat revolution.
(d) By acting and preaching to others to act.

5. What claim of existentialists does Beauvoir offer in defense of detractors to existentialism?
(a) Bouvoir claims that existentialists give focus to the importance of matter in reality.
(b) Bouvoir claims that existentialists believe that the world is willed by man, insofar as his will expresses his genuine reality.
(c) Bouvoir claims that existentialists help to accentuate the strengths of other theories.
(d) Bouvoir claims that existentialists offer their detractors important challenges to prove their theories.