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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Hegel's philosophy, what is the first stage in the development of the conscious mind?
(a) Universal heart is discovered through individual heart.
(b) Forces that contradict the individual's feelings occur.
(c) The sense of the uniqueness of the heart falls away.
(d) Individual heart is recognized by self-consciousness.

2. What does consciousness rest on in Hegel's account?
(a) Reason.
(b) Intuition.
(c) Perception.
(d) Understanding.

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

4. In Hegel's philosophy, what does the self want instead of the good and the true?
(a) The self wants to be dominated by more powerful forces.
(b) Freedom to follow its desires.
(c) To know truth in universal terms.
(d) To follow its own law.

5. According to Hegel, pon what does the reality of a notion depend?
(a) Reflective consciousness.
(b) Reconciliation of self and reality.
(c) External reality.
(d) Subjectivity.

6. What does Hegel say is ultimately impossible for a human?
(a) Purposelessness.
(b) Self-awareness.
(c) Fulfillment.
(d) Transcendence.

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

8. What does Hegel say the meaning of life is for every individual?
(a) "To fulfill the self."
(b) "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
(c) "To be myself."
(d) "To know the self."

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

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

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

12. How does Hegel describe Necessity?
(a) Hegel says that Necessity crushes men's freedom with fate.
(b) Hegel says that Necessity gives man everything he needs.
(c) Hegel says that Necessity works against the law of the heart.
(d) Hegel says that Necessity liberates man to make free will decisions.

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

14. How does Hegel describe the set of things that work against the "law of the heart"?
(a) Liberating.
(b) Perfecting.
(c) Oppressive.
(d) Refining.

15. 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 imp of the perverse.
(c) Because of the drive to power.
(d) Because of the nostalgia for pre-lapsarian consciousness.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Hegel, why is the self unhappy?

2. According to Hegel, what must an individual conquer in order to manifest consciousness and individuality?

3. Observation functions with regard to what in Hegel's philosophy?

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

5. What development does Hegel explain in "Perception, Thing and Deceptiveness"?

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