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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 Enlightenment?
(a) Wisdom gained through experience.
(b) Insight directed against belief.
(c) Mind visited by reason.
(d) History embodied in an individual.

2. What does Hegel include in the religion of art?
(a) War.
(b) National culture.
(c) Cooking.
(d) Ancient Greek revelries of Bacchus.

3. What does Hegel relate conscious activity to?
(a) Light.
(b) Nature.
(c) Rain.
(d) Darkness.

4. What kind of artwork does Hegel discuss as the foundation of revealed religion?
(a) The statue.
(b) The cathedral.
(c) The hymn.
(d) The symphony.

5. What is the ultimate result of action according to Hegel?
(a) Reconciliation of the universal and the particular.
(b) Ethical behavior.
(c) Self-awareness.
(d) Renewed conflict within the self.

6. Whose work did Hegel write in the shadow of?
(a) Spinoza.
(b) Kant.
(c) Leibniz.
(d) Hume.

7. What assumption does Hegel make about God?
(a) That he is unreachable.
(b) That he is human and compassionate.
(c) That he is perfect and timeless.
(d) That he is present.

8. Where does Hegel look for God in art?
(a) In the social uses of art.
(b) In the framework for art.
(c) In the underlying laws of art.
(d) In the mystical experience of art.

9. In Hegel's view, what does the spark of the Absolute represent?
(a) The essence of light and darkness unified.
(b) The medium in which light is carried.
(c) The eternal nature of virtue.
(d) The emergence of the light of consciousness.

10. What emerges after self-estrangement fades according to Hegel?
(a) Enlightenment.
(b) A new round of self-conflict.
(c) Divinity.
(d) Unity.

11. At the level of freedom and terror, what does self-consciousness have according to Hegel?
(a) Existential dread.
(b) Partial identification with the universal mind.
(c) Self-certainty.
(d) Unity with the divine mind.

12. According to Hegel, what is the difficulty with self-consciousness manifesting morality?
(a) Self-consciousness cannot manifest morality without enlightenment.
(b) Self-consciousness can only manifest morality in time, never in eternity.
(c) Self-consciousness can only manifest morality imperfectly.
(d) Self-consciousness has aspects that do not have clear relations with each other.

13. What dictum does Hegel endorse?
(a) Speak only when necessary.
(b) Do what you are afraid to do.
(c) Know thyself.
(d) Love thy neighbor as thyself.

14. How does Hegel describe the fulfillment of duty?
(a) Hegel says that the fulfillment of duty is morality enacted.
(b) Hegel says that the fulfillment of duty is the consequence of spiritual life.
(c) Hegel says that the fulfillment of duty is Spirit manifested.
(d) Hegel says that the fulfillment of duty is the origin of individuality

15. According to Hegel, what is the avenue through which reality and that which exists in consciousness can come into existence?
(a) Duty.
(b) Worship.
(c) Love.
(d) Action.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who else reached similar conclusions to Hegel's, about the nature of Absolute self-consciousness?

2. According to Hegel, what is the element of self-consciousness closest to the Absolute?

3. Which religion comes first, in Hegel's philosophy?

4. How does Hegel define ownership?

5. What is the "beautiful soul's" relationship with morality according to Hegel?

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