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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What are the elements in Hegel's account?
(a) The conditions of archaic existence.
(b) The fundamental emotions, anger, desire, pity.
(c) The sun, moon and stars.
(d) Earth, fire, water, air.

3. What qualities does Hegel describe as being necessary for organic entities?
(a) Capable of perception.
(b) Self-preserving.
(c) Self-conscious.
(d) Reflective.

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) The person's original body.
(d) A person's heridity.

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

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

7. According to Hegel, what constitutes the Course of the World?
(a) The external reality that informs subjectivity.
(b) The heart and its desire and development.
(c) The events of the world as external reality.
(d) The inner events that motivate external reality.

8. In Hegel's terminology, what does the term "sensibility" pertain to?
(a) A zeitgeist, a spirit of the times.
(b) An entity whose end is itself.
(c) A physiological apparatus for perception.
(d) A mental construct that organizes sensations.

9. According tio Hegel where do psychological laws originate?
(a) In the fulfillment of self-consciousness.
(b) In the concrete reality of the self.
(c) In the failure of the power of observation.
(d) In self-reflection.

10. How does Hegel describe notions?
(a) As anamnesis.
(b) As aspects of laws.
(c) As actual things.
(d) As contingent on subjectivity.

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

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

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

14. What is the contradiction at the heart of absolute reality according to Hegel?
(a) It is real but it is also a myth that is propagated in philosophy.
(b) Literacy and printing presses have made experiences transferable to people have not had the experience themselves.
(c) The individual intuits the existence of life beyond himself but can never know anything except through direct perception.
(d) The individual learns about existence from individual existence and also from external reality.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the translator's note, Hegel's study of pleasure and necessity is really a study of what?

2. How does Hegel describe Necessity?

3. According to Hegel, how does the animal fulfill its purpose?

4. What else does Reason require in Hegel's philosophy?

5. What are noumena according to Hegel?

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