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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What else must an individual conquer in order to manifest individuality according to Hegel?
(a) Artistic form of individual expression.
(b) The conceit of individuality.
(c) Organic consciousness.
(d) Histoical situatedness.

4. Where does Hegel see the opportunity for good to be manifest through the actions of human beings?
(a) In the conceit of individuality.
(b) In the heart.
(c) In the ruling elite.
(d) In external events.

5. What are noumena according to Hegel?
(a) Laws.
(b) Events.
(c) Perceptions.
(d) Objects.

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

7. How do objects achieve identity according to Hegel?
(a) Through self awareness.
(b) Through assertion.
(c) Through determinateness.
(d) Through reflection.

8. According to Hegel, what are the mind's two relations to reality?
(a) History and concepts.
(b) Thinking and biology.
(c) Spirit and heart.
(d) Reason and physiology.

9. What does Hegel relate desire to?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Aesthetics.
(c) Primitive will.
(d) SIn.

10. How does Hegel describe the self?
(a) As bounded but sublime.
(b) As physical and divine.
(c) As both free and abstract.
(d) As the sum of material sensations.

11. What is the main obstacle to the individual submitting to the good and the true in Hegel's view?
(a) The illusion of free will.
(b) Necessity.
(c) The universalization of the mind.
(d) The conceit of individuality.

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

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

14. According to Hegel, what is it that prevents the development of consciousness from producing societal problems?
(a) Self-reflection.
(b) Society.
(c) Organic consciousness.
(d) Correct forms.

15. How does Hegel describe observation?
(a) A contingent on subjectivity.
(b) As a mobile army of metaphors.
(c) As necessarily flawed.
(d) As a reliable process.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Hegel, what constitutes the Course of the World?

2. How does Hegel define "irritability"?

3. In what way could Hegel see a person, a table and a fruit as all identical?

4. What does Hegel say we have to see in order to understand the truth about a thing?

5. What does Hegel say accompanies the process of Virtue bringing good into the world?

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