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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Hegel describe the community he found himself living in?
(a) Historical consciousness.
(b) Eighteenth-century Germany.
(c) The ethical world.
(d) Spirit.

2. What is the father of science in Hegel's opinion?
(a) Consciousness.
(b) Necessity.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Nature.

3. According to Hegel, what is the relationship between spiritual life and the day-to-day world?
(a) They are mutually exclusive.
(b) They are interdependent but separate.
(c) They take place together.
(d) They are separate but complementary.

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

5. How is belief transformed into enlightenment according to Hegel?
(a) Everything is reaffirmed in its divine aspect.
(b) Everything is rejected as distraction from the divine.
(c) Everything is accepted as evidence of the divine.
(d) Everything is doubted and questioned.

6. What does Hegel say is the highest moral function of an individual?
(a) To recognize the primal importance of duty.
(b) To help other people fulfill their duty.
(c) To act correctly upon duty.
(d) To understand one's duty.

7. What does Insight cause people to find according to Hegel?
(a) Consciousness.
(b) The universal mind.
(c) History.
(d) Religion.

8. What does Hegel contrast darkness to?
(a) Reason.
(b) Vision.
(c) Creativity.
(d) Consciousness.

9. Which religion comes first, in Hegel's philosophy?
(a) Moral religion.
(b) Natural religion.
(c) Human religion.
(d) Instinctual religion.

10. What does Hegel see in his ideal form of art?
(a) The Eternal bound within a moment's work.
(b) The Divine manifested in an individual craftsman.
(c) The hymn in a still, perfect form.
(d) The Absolute within self-consciousness as a subject.

11. What do contradictory elements lead to according to Hegel?
(a) Self-awareness.
(b) Hypocrisy.
(c) Dutiful actions.
(d) Self-fulfillment.

12. How does Hegel see self-division in an entity?
(a) Hegel sees self-division as the basis of self-fulfillment.
(b) Hegel sees self-division as a loss of unity.
(c) Hegel sees self-division as the enemy of self-fulfillment.
(d) Hegel sees self-division as an improvement over unity.

13. What does the conscience create according to Hegel?
(a) The sphere in which Mind can be perfected.
(b) A concrete instance of the Mind.
(c) A rebirth and cultivation of Spirit.
(d) A manifestation of the Universal Mind.

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

15. What is the "beautiful soul's" relationship with morality according to Hegel?
(a) Morality is the means by which the soul attains its beauty.
(b) Morality is one of the beautiful soul's tools.
(c) Morality is effectively built-in to the beautiful soul
(d) Morality is the beautiful soul's duty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does universality have its reality according to Hegel?

2. Where does Hegel look for God in art?

3. What is the stage after the "beautiful soul" in Hegel's view?

4. According to Hegel, what does each action lead to?

5. What does Hegel call a kind of diffusing selfless Self?

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