1. 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.

2. What does Beauvoir identify as the spirit of seriousness?
(a) To consider values as ready-made things.
(b) Facing the reality that the fate of all is the grave.
(c) Leaving the fallacy of materialists that only matter matters.
(d) Leaving the fallacy of existentialism that only thought matters.

3. How does Beauvoir explain that a child, himself, is not serious?
(a) A child is not affected by the knowledge of things that have been established before him.
(b) A child is not aware that his fate is the grave.
(c) A child's thoughts are often fanciful and unrealistic.
(d) A child is allowed to play and expend his existence freely to passionately pursue and joyfully attain goals which he has set up for himself.

4. What does Beauvoir claim comes of an accomplished act that is left behind by an individual?
(a) The affects of the act continue, but the act becomes forgotten.
(b) It becomes nothing more than a fact.
(c) The act remains as an experience that lends to the development of the will.
(d) It has a diminished affect as time and spontaneous acts have different consequences.

5. What does Beauvoir claim a child can do due to his state of security?
(a) He can have all his needs provided without labor.
(b) He can choose a direction in which he desires to remove his ignorance.
(c) He can create the world he wants to exist.
(d) He can do with impunity whatever he likes.