This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, The Positive Aspect of Ambiguity, Sections 4-5, The Present and the Future, Ambiguity and Conclusion.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the challenge for those who suffer more than one oppressor, what answer does Beauvoir offer?
(a) Only by working with the least offensive of the oppressors could other oppressors be removed.
(b) Overthrowing the oppressors is a matter of opportunity and efficiency.
(c) Only by generating full support of the masses could any of the oppressors be dispatched.
(d) The issue is moral, not political, and the moral consensus must be reached with at least one oppressor.

2. What idea regarding ethics does Beauvoir attribute to Hegel?
(a) "Ethics is self-contained because reality is self-contained."
(b) "Ethics are the creation of minds that fear facing problems."
(c) "Ethics is irrelevant because they only affect manipulation of a material universe."
(d) "There is an ethics only if there is a problem to solve."

3. What does Beauvoir report comes to the individual at the time the world changes in his perspective?
(a) He has the moment of moral choice.
(b) The world is no longer ready made.
(c) He can begin to control the consequences of his acts.
(d) He faces the choice of repeating past mistakes or breaking from them.

4. What does Beauvoir claim to be the relationship between the serious and nihilism?
(a) The serious man and nihilists dispute the purpose of those who do not support their goals.
(b) The serious man often rallies to a partial nihilism, denying everything which is not its object.
(c) Seriousness and nihilism both develop a narrow set of ethics based upon a relationship to achievement or lack of the same.
(d) Seriousness and nihilism focus on goals or the impossibility of reaching them to avoid accepting the freedom of ambiguity.

5. Why does Beauvoir claim that some individuals have lives that slip into an infantile world?
(a) Because they are kept in a state of servitude and ignorance and have no means of breaking the ceiling which is over their heads.
(b) Because they discover they are incompetent in the direction they choose for their lives.
(c) Because they never leave the fanciful world they create in their minds.
(d) Because the labor they choose prevents them from using their minds.