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

2. 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."

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

4. According to Hegel, what is "honest activity" related to?
(a) Seeming.
(b) The origins of action.
(c) The effects of action.
(d) Emptiness.

5. According to Hegel, what constitutes the Course of the World?
(a) The events of the world as external reality.
(b) The external reality that informs subjectivity.
(c) The heart and its desire and development.
(d) The inner events that motivate external reality.

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

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

8. How does Hegel define "irritability"?
(a) As a the consequence of reconciliation.
(b) As a constant in conscious life.
(c) As an organism's ability to act out.
(d) As a failure of reflection.

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

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

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

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

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

14. 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) Individual heart is recognized by self-consciousness.
(d) The sense of the uniqueness of the heart falls away.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the reason of observation conjoined with, according to the translator? 

3. According tio Hegel where do psychological laws originate?

4. How does Hegel describe Necessity?

5. What is the contradiction at the heart of absolute reality according to Hegel?

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