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

2. What explanation does Beauvoir give to assert that existentialist thought helps to build community.
(a) Beauvoir asserts, "Existentialists are more often inviting of debate since they do not consider any idea as wrong because they accept no idea as right."
(b) Beauvoir asserts, "...existentialism,...(is) the plurality of concrete particular men projecting themselves toward their ends on the basis of situations whose particularity is as radical and irreducible as subjectivity.
(c) Beauvoir asserts, "Despite their disparate views, existentialists easily welcome any detractor because they only see them as creations of their own minds."
(d) Beauvoir asserts, "Existentialists, with their dogmatic adherence to solipsism, help to rally a wide range of theorists to disprove their irrationality."

3. How does Beauvoir define the present?
(a) The present is when the Aesthetic Attitude meets its most significant challenge.
(b) The present is the moment in which thought meets matter.
(c) The present is the point at which the will meets freedom.
(d) The present is not a potential past, it is the moment of choice and action.

4. What is the future that Beauvoir sees for herself?
(a) A reality which is given at each moment.
(b) That movement which will fulfill her present projects and will surpass them toward new ends.
(c) The opportunity retrieve herself as beings in Glory, Happiness, or justice.
(d) The infinite and as Totality, as number and as unity of conciliation.

5. How does Beauvoir claim the condition of the world changes from child to adolescence?
(a) The world is no longer ready made, but must be made.
(b) When a child begins to realize he cannot create his own existence, he becomes accountable for his thoughts.
(c) The individual begins to realize that matter has significant influence on thought.
(d) The adolescent realizes his decisions have affects.