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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What development does Hegel explain in "Perception, Thing and Deceptiveness"?
(a) The development of the natural consciousness.
(b) The development of historical consciousness.
(c) The development of religious consciousness.
(d) The development of the scientific consciousness.

2. What role does Hegel say society plays in how man determines his direction?
(a) Hegel says that society provides the foundation for freedom.
(b) Hegel says that society codifies desires with laws.
(c) Hegel says that society inhibits men's freedom.
(d) Hegel says that society works against the direction of the heart.

3. How does Hegel classify desires?
(a) Demonic consciousness.
(b) The root of self-awareness.
(c) Animal consciousness.
(d) Material existence.

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

5. According to Hegel, action turns the external world into an arena where what can come into being?
(a) Historical consciousness.
(b) Inner truth.
(c) External reality.
(d) World-consciousness.

6. What else does Reason require in Hegel's philosophy?
(a) The self-evidence of the self and the world.
(b) An acceptable myth describing the nature of self and world.
(c) Doubt as to the nature of the self and the world.
(d) A degree of monomania.

7. What does Hegel say we have to see in order to understand the truth about a thing?
(a) The reality that perception is subjective and relative.
(b) The notion that things continue to exist regardless of our presence or absence.
(c) The possibility that there can be more than one thing at a time.
(d) The possibility of there being something more than the thing itself.

8. According to the translator, what does "the fact of the matter" refer to?
(a) An assertion of the truth of something.
(b) An absolute reality.
(c) Conditions surrounding an event.
(d) Realities as they appear to subjectivity.

9. According to Hegel, for what purpose are Unity, Difference and Relation all necessary?
(a) For the reconciliation of man with himself.
(b) For the evolution of man.
(c) For the development of self-reflection.
(d) For the development of consciousness.

10. How does Hegel define "irritability"?
(a) As a failure of reflection.
(b) As a the consequence of reconciliation.
(c) As a constant in conscious life.
(d) As an organism's ability to act out.

11. How does Hegel describe force?
(a) Force is impersonal, natural, and divine.
(b) Force is a human power to be used against nature.
(c) Force is an eternal power in the world.
(d) Force is an attempt to transfer understanding.

12. According to Hegel, how does the animal fulfill its purpose?
(a) By attaining reflection.
(b) By living.
(c) By reconciling its self with reality.
(d) By attaining consciousness.

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

14. Why does Hegel say that the relationship with the bondsman is not fulfilling for the lord?
(a) Because of a self-contained counter effect.
(b) Because of the drive to power.
(c) Because of the imp of the perverse.
(d) Because of the nostalgia for pre-lapsarian consciousness.

15. What is the result of force in Hegel's philosophy?
(a) A reassessment of relationships.
(b) A new authority.
(c) A new understanding.
(d) A new law.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Hegel define a law?

3. What does Hegel include in the limitations of laws?

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

5. According to Hegel, what does an individual need to do to live wisely and virtuously?

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