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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the purpose of Hegel's treatise?
(a) To prove the existence and thoughts of God.
(b) To disprove the need for religion.
(c) To dispel superstition.
(d) To cultivate the scientific mind.

2. What is the reason of observation conjoined with, according to the translator? 
(a) Self reconciliation.
(b) Scientific knowledge.
(c) Self-consciousness and reflection.
(d) Knowledge and science.

3. Which modern culture is the most representative descendant of Hegelian thinking?
(a) Germany.
(b) France.
(c) Russia.
(d) America.

4. What is it that indicates something about a person's unique traits, in Hegel's account?
(a) What a person does to their body.
(b) The marks on a body.
(c) A person's heridity.
(d) The person's original body.

5. According to the translator's note, Hegel's study of pleasure and necessity is really a study of what?
(a) Romanticism.
(b) Sentimentalism.
(c) Hedonism.
(d) Sadism.

6. What is the purpose of an animal's mentality in Hegel's opinion?
(a) To fulfill human purposes.
(b) To manifest the univeral mind.
(c) To match organic nature.
(d) To evolve toward consciousness.

7. What does Hegel say is impossible in animal life?
(a) Consciousness.
(b) Individuality.
(c) Purposeless behavior.
(d) Randomness.

8. What does Hegel say is the goal of individual self-consciousness?
(a) To transcend whatever opposes the law of the heart.
(b) To subjugate the law of the heart to social law.
(c) To merge the law of the heart with necessity.
(d) To engage the law of the heart in dialogue with fate.

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

10. How else do the inner and outer relate, besides being opposites according to Hegel?
(a) They are also complementary.
(b) They are also mutually dependent.
(c) The outer is also dependent on the inner.
(d) The inner is also dependent on the outer.

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

12. To what does the term "sensibility" apply according to Hegel?
(a) All humans.
(b) All living things.
(c) Humans and animals.
(d) The entire universe.

13. How does Hegel describe the process of the World running its Course?
(a) Exhilarating.
(b) Sad and unpleasant.
(c) Uplifting.
(d) Torturous and miserable.

14. What human trait does Hegel say is not found in animals?
(a) Organic consciousness.
(b) Organic behavior.
(c) Life being lived for itself.
(d) Self-reflection.

15. What does Hegel say accompanies the process of Virtue bringing good into the world?
(a) Struggle and suffering.
(b) Dialogue and reconciliation.
(c) Universalization of mind.
(d) Conformity and oppression.

Short Answer Questions

1. What becomes clear as the future becomes the past, according to Hegel?

2. What rejection does the uniqueness of a self require according to Hegel?

3. According to Hegel, self-consciousness is aware of itself relative to what?

4. What are the elements in Hegel's account?

5. Which philosopher influenced Hegel's use of categories?

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