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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Hegel, what does an individual need to do to live wisely and virtuously?
(a) Express themselves in acts and words.
(b) Live their lives.
(c) Develop new ways of doing things.
(d) Conform to their culture.

2. What does Hegel explain in the introduction of The Phenomenology of Mind?
(a) Where the work fits in the history of philosophy.
(b) Why he was the only one who could have written this work.
(c) Why the work is necessary to his times and to humanity.
(d) Where the inspiration for the work came from.

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

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

5. What does Hegel mean by "concrete"?
(a) Devoid of consciousness.
(b) Experiential and actual.
(c) Filled with potential.
(d) Filled with divine actuality.

6. 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) Individual heart is recognized by self-consciousness.
(c) Forces that contradict the individual's feelings occur.
(d) The sense of the uniqueness of the heart falls away.

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

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

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

10. What becomes clear as the future becomes the past, according to Hegel?
(a) How free men are in their decisions.
(b) How fate operates in every detail.
(c) How certain events were inevitable.
(d) How free will is an illusion.

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

12. According to Hegel, how does the truth of concrete individuals manifest?
(a) It manifests in action.
(b) It manifests in self-conflict.
(c) If manifests without any doubt.
(d) It manifests in every decision.

13. Which claim does Hegel make about the mind?
(a) That it is the basis of all claims about reality.
(b) That it is exempt from claims about observations.
(c) That it can observe itself.
(d) That it can only see itself through Reason.

14. 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.

15. What were both phrenology and cranioscopy looking for?
(a) A link between form and individual traits.
(b) A link between form and heredity.
(c) A link between man and ape.
(d) A link between man and God.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do both parts of a lordship/bondage relationship seek in Hegel's philosophy?

3. According to Hegel, self-consciousness is aware of itself relative to what?

4. According to Hegel, what is "honest activity" related to?

5. How does Hegel describe notions?

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