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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do both parts of a lordship/bondage relationship seek in Hegel's philosophy?
(a) The elimination of the other.
(b) Equilibrium.
(c) Dominance.
(d) Self-certainty of consciousness.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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) To know truth in universal terms.
(c) Freedom to follow its desires.
(d) To follow its own law.

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

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

12. What is humanity's tendency according to Hegel?
(a) To evolve toward the spirit.
(b) To be driven by desire.
(c) To create the will through work.
(d) To follow the heart.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Hegel's view, how are laws of thought connected?

2. How do objects achieve identity according to Hegel?

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

4. What is the main obstacle to the individual submitting to the good and the true in Hegel's view?

5. Where does Hegel locate the beginning of scientific knowledge?

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