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

2. What does Beauvoir claim to be the choice that comes to a young man after a long crisis?
(a) He either turns back toward the world of his parents and teachers or he adheres to the values which are new but seem to him just as sure.
(b) He can accept his ambiguity and move to freedom and ethics, or he can return to the shelters of his childhood.
(c) He can define his life through his choices, or avoid his choices and slip into nothingness.
(d) He can escape the stress of his existence or throw himself into the object that defines his goal.

3. What quote from Lenin does Beauvoir use to demonstrate the Marxist revolution has human meaning?
(a) "We say that our morality is entirely subordinated to the interests of the proletariat's class struggle."
(b) "The entire purpose of training, educating and teaching the youth of today should be to imbue them with communist ethics."
(c) "I call any action useful to the party moral action; I call it immoral if it is harmful to the party."
(d) "Our action only has meaning if it brings down the influence of the bourgeois."

4. What comes to the individual at the point he begins to notice the conflicts of the adult world, according to Beauvoir?
(a) The individual must at last assume his subjectivity.
(b) The individual can pursue freedom or seriousness.
(c) The individual has the choice of holding to existentialist myths or accepting his ambiguity.
(d) The individual faces the daunting challenge of pursuing ethics that have none of the inconsistencies that have plagued societies through history.

5. What does Beauvoir require for an individual to genuinely desire an end in the present?
(a) An expected manipulation of the material world through the desired end.
(b) A recognition of consequences that will come through the desired end.
(c) A fulfillment of spontaneous desires over time.
(d) A desire for that end throughout his entire existence.