1. What does Beauvoir suggest becomes the intellectual responsibility of existentialists who reject God?
(a) He bears responsibility for a world which is not the work of strange power.
(b) He bears the responsibility to show his works for self-benefit do not affect others in his environs.
(c) He has the responsibility of defining how works for self-benefit are also beneficial to his environs.
(d) He bears the responsibility to prove the lives of others have not affects on himself, starting with the union of his parents that brought his existence.

2. How does Beauvoir suggest that a child console himself when confronted with personal imperfection?
(a) By denying the flaw and moving to his next goal.
(b) By holding to ignorance so as not to have to explain his predicament.
(c) By blaming his problem on another child.
(d) By pinning his hopes on the future.

3. What does Beauvoir identify as the irony of the serious man?
(a) He considers his goals to be serious whereas the free man considers them to be trivial.
(b) He defends the seriousness of his goals while disputing the seriousness of the goals of others.
(c) He claims that he freely chose his goals, but they are extensions of the structures that formed his childhood.
(d) He pursues his serious goals but finds them to be insufficient once they are achieved.

4. How does Beauvoir suggest a past accomplishment can be made relevant in the present?
(a) By keeping a record of all accomplishments to reflect upon those experiences with every decision.
(b) By ceaselessly returning to it and justify it as part of the project with which the individual is currently involved.
(c) By tracing the affects of the act from the past through to the present.
(d) By comparing present acts to the acts of the past.

5. How does Beauvoir define materialist philosophers?
(a) Those who "see no life after this one".
(b) Those who have "striven to reduce mind to matter".
(c) Those who "conceive all matter as eternal".
(d) Those who see "no value in thought".