This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, The Positive Aspect of Ambiguity, Sections 1-3, The Aesthetic Attitude, Freedom and Liberation, The Antinomies of Action.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During their stage of freedom, how does Beauvoir claim that a child sees adults?
(a) As benevolent dictators that provide their needs.
(b) As physically threatening.
(c) As fanciful projections of their uninhibited minds.
(d) As divinities.

2. At what point does Beauvoir declare the death of an individual is not a failure?
(a) When it is integrated into a project which surpasses the limits of life.
(b) When the cause for which he died preserves freedom for all.
(c) If his death leads to the victory of his cause.
(d) If the cause for which he died is carried on by his survivors.

3. What does Beauvoir note to be the objection of oppressors who are facing overthrow for the cause of freedom?
(a) Overthrowing oppressors will bring neophytes to incompetently administer the principles of law and justice.
(b) Those who overthrow an oppressor are only seeking the power to oppress.
(c) Overthrowing the order of oppressors threatens to subject all to barbarism.
(d) By overthrowing their oppression, the freedom of oppressors is being deprived.

4. 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 accept the insignificance of the individual as a means of embracing individual 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 assume and know the condition of our fundamental ambiguity.

5. 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.