1. How does Beauvoir explain that a child, himself, is not serious?
(a) A child is not aware that his fate is the grave.
(b) A child's thoughts are often fanciful and unrealistic.
(c) A child is not affected by the knowledge of things that have been established before him.
(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.

2. How does Beauvoir explain what Descartes meant when he said that the freedom of man is infinite, but this power is limited?
(a) That the will is defined only by raising obstacles and by the contingency of certain obstacles that let themselves be conquered and others that do not.
(b) That man's mind has no limits in thought, but his physical body does not have the ability to follow the thoughts.
(c) The individual man has the power to follow his desires until his pursuit is obstructed by a more power man.
(d) That man is free to believe all things, but achieving them is subject to the physical universe.

3. What does Beauvoir state is the goal at which her freedom aims?
(a) "Seeing the doors of defeat before initiating and act."
(b) "Rejecting the verdicts of doubters and seeing the possibility of achieving ends through obstacles."
(c) "Understanding the difference between delusion, denial, and stone pounding to affirm true existence."
(d) "...(C)onquering existence across the always inadequate density of being."

4. How does Beauvoir characterize the fate of the "sub-man"?
(a) He finds nothing to appreciate and in turn no one appreciates him.
(b) He makes his way across a world deprived of meaning toward a death which merely confirm his long negation of himself.
(c) He does not recognize his facticity, therefore he does not experience the triumph of freedom through the development of his ethics.
(d) His ethics and facticity have no consequences, therefore they are nonexistent.

5. At what point does Beauvoir claim an individual has the ability to decide and choose?
(a) When he can see and manipulate the affects of spontaneous acts on the physical world.
(b) When the usefulness of spontaneous acts are identifiable by the individual.
(c) When the moments of his life begin to be organized into behavior.
(d) When he responds to the consequences of spontaneous acts.