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. How does Beauvoir define the relationship of the "sub-man" to ethics and facticity?
(a) The "sub-man" considers ethics and facticity as interchangeable.
(b) The "sub-man" rejects ethics and feels only the facticity of his existence.
(c) The "sub-man" accepts ethics as the facticity of his existence as unchangeable.
(d) The "sub-man" rejects the ambiguity of ethics as influences over his facticity.

2. What irony does Beauvoir suggest contributes to the most optimistic ethics.
(a) That although ethics are pursued to define man's existence, they always lead to ambiguity.
(b) That they have all begun by emphasizing the element of failure involved in the condition of man.
(c) That all ethics eventually lead man to rationalize violations of their ethics.
(d) That although they seek to lift man to utopia, the eventually lead man to distopia.

3. How does Beauvoir illustrate how ambiguity affected Christianity?
(a) She illustrated that the Reformation challenged the seriousness of the Catholic Church with the Christian Spirit.
(b) She showed how interpretation of scripture was replaced by researching scripture.
(c) She showed how poverty allowed a break from salvation through indulgences.
(d) She showed how works bound to the dead law were replaced with faith and charity.

4. What is the paradox with which Beauvoir closes Chapter One?
(a) In order to fill his existence, man must assume himself as a being who, "makes himself a lack of being so that there might be being."
(b) Man is a being that, "in order to know the existence of achievement he must face the nothingness of failure."
(c) Man as an individual is, "At once alone in himself which makes up the mass of universality."
(d) "Man cannot know existence without first knowing his nothingness."

5. At what point does Beauvoir claim an individual has the ability to decide and choose?
(a) When he responds to the consequences of spontaneous acts.
(b) When the moments of his life begin to be organized into behavior.
(c) When the usefulness of spontaneous acts are identifiable by the individual.
(d) When he can see and manipulate the affects of spontaneous acts on the physical world.