1. What does Beauvoir identify as the paradox of Marxist thought?
(a) "The point at which the proletariat overthrows the bourgeois, they immediately attempt to become bourgeois."
(b) "Marxist deny accepting morality while condemning all movements that do not accept their moral view."
(c) "From the moment a man recognizes himself as free, he is prohibited from wishing for anything."
(d) "Marxist deny desires for material things while devoting their revolution to taking material things."

2. What does Beauvoir indicate can sometimes happen when there is a failure of the serious?
(a) The serious man will have to rely on what training he had as a child to deal with failure.
(b) It can bring about a radical disorder.
(c) Sometimes the serious man will recognize his ambiguity and act freely to establish an ethic to help him through his failure.
(d) Sometimes the serious man will revert to his childhood and depend on others for his purpose.

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

4. What does Beauvoir define as the drama of original choice?
(a) That it justifies the positions of existentialists.
(b) That its affects are ambiguous.
(c) That it goes on moment by moment for an entire lifetime.
(d) That it has both cause and effect.

5. At what time does Beauvoir suggest that children begin to notice the contradictions, hesitations and weaknesses of adults?
(a) Adolescence.
(b) At the time the become interested in the opposite sex.
(c) The age of accountability.
(d) When they begin to see how their actions affect the world around them.