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

2. What prevents a moral question from presenting itself to the child according to Beauvoir?
(a) Ignorance of the physical world.
(b) A lack of perspective to see himself in the past or seeing himself in the future.
(c) Ignorance of consequences.
(d) The misunderstanding of spontaneity and affects.

3. Beauvoir claims that dualists use their basic belief to establish what idea?
(a) To embrace nihilism.
(b) To guide their adherents to prepare exclusively for the after life.
(c) To seek to find life on other planets.
(d) To diminish the part of the self that cannot be saved.

4. How does Beauvoir compare southern slaves to children?
(a) By comparing their faith in a heavenly afterlife to the fantasy world that children create in their minds.
(b) By comparing hopes for freedom to the a child's hope for the future.
(c) By comparing the ignorance of their condition to the ignorance of children to the realities of the world.
(d) By comparing their obedience to the slave owner to that of children to adults in their lives.

5. What does Beauvoir seek to prove regarding man's mastery of the world?
(a) Man's mastery of the world is futile, because nature is constantly changing beyond man's ability to contain it.
(b) With each gain to control his surroundings, man feels himself more insignificant within the immense collectivity on the earth.
(c) Man's journey to master the world is a quest to meet God.
(d) That the more widespread men attain mastery of the world, the more they find themselves crushed by it.