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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Reason as Testing Laws.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does "the concrete" have in Hegel's account?
(a) Unique life.
(b) Form and universals.
(c) Scientific self-certainty.
(d) Consciousness.

2. In what way could Hegel see a person, a table and a fruit as all identical?
(a) They are all 'things'.
(b) They are all 'mind'.
(c) They are all 'objects of perception' to another person.
(d) They are all raw material for consciousness.

3. According to Hegel, what must an individual conquer in order to manifest consciousness and individuality?
(a) The individual must conquer the part of themselves that runs counter to what society needs.
(b) The individual must conquer the society itself.
(c) The individual must conquer necessity and the inevitability of his responses.
(d) The individual must conquer the animal nature within themselves.

4. How does Hegel describe reason?
(a) As an evolutionary benefit.
(b) As evidence of the divine.
(c) As a stage of mind.
(d) As uniquely human.

5. What rejection does the uniqueness of a self require according to Hegel?
(a) Rejection of the past.
(b) Rejection of the other.
(c) Rejection of the eternal.
(d) Rejection of the abstract.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Hegel's feeling about communism?

2. What does Hegel say is impossible in animal life?

3. According to Hegel's philosophy, independent self-consciousness is both an aspect of concrete individuality and what else?

4. What is the reason of observation conjoined with, according to the translator? 

5. What does Hegel say is ultimately impossible for a human?

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