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. What does Beauvoir identify as the irony of the serious man?
(a) He considers his goals to be serious whereas the free man considers them to be trivial.
(b) He pursues his serious goals but finds them to be insufficient once they are achieved.
(c) He claims that he freely chose his goals, but they are extensions of the structures that formed his childhood.
(d) He defends the seriousness of his goals while disputing the seriousness of the goals of others.

2. For whom do Beauvoir and Marx agree that the cause of freedom is most urgent?
(a) The proletariat who is controlled by the bourgeois.
(b) To the oppressed that it appears as immediately necessary.
(c) Women who are unaware of the subjugation to men.
(d) The unenlightened who does not realize their exploitation.

3. What does Beauvoir define as the drama of original choice?
(a) That it goes on moment by moment for an entire lifetime.
(b) That its affects are ambiguous.
(c) That it has both cause and effect.
(d) That it justifies the positions of existentialists.

4. Upon what does Beauvoir claim that a child's freedom is based?
(a) Upon his inability to grasp the concept of cause and effect.
(b) Upon ignorance that makes all his decisions meaningless.
(c) Upon adults whom he is only to respect and obey.
(d) Upon his willingness to trust adults without question.

5. How does Beauvoir suggest violent action against oppression becomes a contradiction to the cause of freedom?
(a) Because those who fight oppression must oppress those who fight with them to command the battle.
(b) Because conquering enemies requires reducing the enemies to things and those who fight oppression must reduce themselves to things as well.
(c) Because those who fight oppression generally desire the power of those they attempt to overthrow.
(d) Because those who see oppressors as being beneficial will believe they fight for freedom in defense of an oppressor.