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. What are the two meanings that Beauvoir gives to the word future.
(a) The future is never here, but man is always moving toward it.
(b) It is the ambiguous condition of man which is lack of being as well as man's existence.
(c) Future is both a speculation and a target.
(d) Future is that which is yet to come, but is the substance of all projects.

2. What possibility does Beauvoir claim the fundamental ambiguity of the human condition opens to men?
(a) The choice of existentialism over materialism.
(b) The choice of being and lack of being.
(c) The choice of freedom over oppression.
(d) The possibility of opposing choices.

3. How does Beauvoir compare the present to the future?
(a) As that moment that quickly passes both into the past and the future.
(b) As only negative which must be eliminated as such.
(c) The only point in time in which the individual can come to grasp their reality.
(d) The moment that, when combined with the line of the past, defines the ambiguity of freedom.

4. What claim of existentialists does Beauvoir offer in defense of detractors to existentialism?
(a) Bouvoir claims that existentialists give focus to the importance of matter in reality.
(b) Bouvoir claims that existentialists help to accentuate the strengths of other theories.
(c) Bouvoir claims that existentialists offer their detractors important challenges to prove their theories.
(d) Bouvoir claims that existentialists believe that the world is willed by man, insofar as his will expresses his genuine reality.

5. To what conclusion to Beauvoir arrive regarding Sartre's internal choices that are affected by personal passions?
(a) Since man is directed by his eternal passions, the external force of God has no influence in Sartre's existentialism.
(b) Sartre's man eliminates the needs for external moral influence by following passions that eventually lead to personal benefit.
(c) Since passions and their choices are internal, there are no objective standards by which to define their usefulness.
(d) Since Sartre considers man as driven by internal passions, he brings to question the existence of the physical world and its causes and effects.