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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Hegel define a law?
(a) Anything capable of being observed as a perception of another.
(b) Anything that appears with profound consistency.
(c) The relation of any element to the process of becoming an organic being.
(d) Anything that binds the freedom of an organic entity.

2. Where does Hegel locate the beginning of scientific knowledge?
(a) In spirituality.
(b) In God.
(c) In History.
(d) In self-knowledge.

3. In Hegel's view, how are laws of thought connected?
(a) By logic.
(b) By history.
(c) By reason.
(d) By science.

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

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

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

7. What school of thought influenced Hegel's writing?
(a) Enlightenment.
(b) Nationalism.
(c) Romanticism.
(d) Humanism.

8. What is a pre-condition to Reason according to Hegel?
(a) Double consciousness.
(b) Transcendent self-awareness.
(c) Stable sources of food and shelter.
(d) Stable self-certainty.

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

10. How does Hegel describe reason?
(a) As evidence of the divine.
(b) As a stage of mind.
(c) As uniquely human.
(d) As an evolutionary benefit.

11. 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 possibility of there being something more than the thing itself.
(c) The notion that things continue to exist regardless of our presence or absence.
(d) The possibility that there can be more than one thing at a time.

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

13. What is meant by Hegel's term "practical reason"?
(a) Rational actions.
(b) Universal truths.
(c) Instinctual reactions.
(d) Ideas that result in happiness.

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

15. What does Hegel say about the concept of absolute reality?
(a) It is a consequence of self-consciousness.
(b) It can only be expressed in art and dreams.
(c) It is beyond the reach of consciousness.
(d) It is an empty notion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What else must an individual conquer in order to manifest individuality according to Hegel?

2. What does a man gain by doing good work in Hegel's view?

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

4. What is it that indicates something about a person's unique traits, in Hegel's account?

5. What causes the formation of laws according to Hegel?

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