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. By quoting Dostoyevsky ("If God does not exist, then everything is permitted"), what examination does Beauvoir make?
(a) The role of the physical world on the development of a moral code.
(b) The role of the existence of God in defining the existence of man and the world.
(c) The role of an external moral code in extinguishing passions.
(d) The role of a dualistic spiritual existence in directing passion.

2. What does Beauvoir report to be the child's situation?
(a) He is cast into a universe which he has not helped to establish and appears as an absolute to which he can only submit.
(b) He is subject to accept all things based upon what others tell him.
(c) His ambiguity is compounded by his ignorance of right and wrong.
(d) He faces the reality that his freedom is continually reduced by his growing knowledge.

3. What is the point at which existentialism is opposed to dialectic materialism according to Beauvoir?
(a) When the proletariat universally works to eliminate its class.
(b) Where intellectual and bourgeois revolutions are considered suspiciously by the proletariat.
(c) Where subjectivity and objectivity become equally determined by the revolt of the proletariat.
(d) Where revolt, need, hope, rejection, and desire are only the resultants of external forces.

4. According to Beauvoir, how is freedom present within the drama of choice?
(a) Before the realization that a choice must be made.
(b) In the moment before consequences are evident.
(c) Within the analysis that leads to a decision.
(d) Only in the form of contingency.

5. How does the type of future facing individual humans affect civilizations such as Ancient Greece and Rome, according to Beauvoir?
(a) Their future is secured by eradicating the future of their enemies.
(b) They all come to an end.
(c) They all survive by effectively winning wars.
(d) They make their futures more secure by seeking to provide freedom to their citizens.