1. How does Beauvoir characterize the purpose of the body?
(a) It becomes the vessel that evaluates the harm or benefit of consequences.
(b) It becomes the barometer that marks the move from child to adolescent to mature adult.
(c) It expresses our relationship to the world.
(d) It enjoys the pleasures of freedom before consequences are manifest.

2. How does Beauvoir suggest a child has a state of security?
(a) By virtue of the adults who control his life.
(b) By virtue of the fantasy world he creates in his mind.
(c) By virtue of his hopes for the future.
(d) By virtue of his very insignificance.

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

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

5. How does the child's life begin actually become serious according to Beauvoir?
(a) By restricting his actions to those that gain rewards.
(b) By feeling the consequences of poorly thought decisions.
(c) Through following the examples of role models.
(d) By learning which erases his ignorance.