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

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

3. How does Beauvoir suggest a past accomplishment can be made relevant in the present?
(a) By comparing present acts to the acts of the past.
(b) By ceaselessly returning to it and justify it as part of the project with which the individual is currently involved.
(c) By tracing the affects of the act from the past through to the present.
(d) By keeping a record of all accomplishments to reflect upon those experiences with every decision.

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

5. What is the point at which existentialism is opposed to dialectic materialism according to Beauvoir?
(a) Where revolt, need, hope, rejection, and desire are only the resultants of external forces.
(b) When the proletariat universally works to eliminate its class.
(c) Where intellectual and bourgeois revolutions are considered suspiciously by the proletariat.
(d) Where subjectivity and objectivity become equally determined by the revolt of the proletariat.