1. What does Descartes credit man's unhappiness to, according to Beauvoir?
(a) Having first been a child.
(b) His inability to accept his ambiguity.
(c) The inner conflict between doing right and doing what he wants.
(d) His lack of freedom.

2. In the face of emerging violence of man's growing mastery of the world, what does Beauvoir suggest to individuals who seek to navigate it?
(a) To assume and know the condition of our fundamental ambiguity.
(b) To seek to understand God's role in the growing environment of violence.
(c) To discontinue to attempt to keep up with the changes going on in the world.
(d) To accept the insignificance of the individual as a means of embracing individual ambiguity.

3. 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 has the choice of holding to existentialist myths or accepting his ambiguity.
(c) The individual can pursue freedom or seriousness.
(d) The individual faces the daunting challenge of pursuing ethics that have none of the inconsistencies that have plagued societies through history.

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

5. According to Beauvoir, what is the goal of dualist teachings to their disciples?
(a) To eliminate ambiguity from the after life.
(b) To see the physical life as ambiguous.
(c) To escape ambiguity.
(d) To eliminate ambiguity from extraterrestrial life.