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. According to Beauvoir, if every man is free:
(a) His will must remain free.
(b) He must work to free other men.
(c) He is free to oppress the freedom of others.
(d) He cannot will himself free.

2. How does Beauvoir claim that a slave can exercise freedom?
(a) By remaining ignorant of the consciousness of his slavery.
(b) By using their influence over other slaves to overthrow the slave owner.
(c) By showing expertise in a particular field to make his existence more valuable to the slave owner.
(d) By creating a world of freedom in their minds.

3. To what does Beauvoir compare the presence of freedom within the drama of choice?
(a) The historian who chooses threads that take him to the original cause.
(b) The calm before the storm.
(c) The adolescent who sees the world constructed for him as a child is corrupt.
(d) The arbitrariness of the grace distributed by God in Calvinistic Doctrine.

4. How does Beauvoir claim that oppressive regimes become stronger?
(a) Through being willing to kill allies.
(b) Through indiscriminate violence that removes all pretense of freedom.
(c) Through the degradation of the oppressed.
(d) Through ruthlessly enforcing law.

5. Beauvoir claims that dualists use their basic belief to establish what idea?
(a) To seek to find life on other planets.
(b) To embrace nihilism.
(c) To guide their adherents to prepare exclusively for the after life.
(d) To diminish the part of the self that cannot be saved.