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

2. How does Hegel look at ethics in the "Moral View of the World" chapter?
(a) Hegel looks at ethics with respect to spirit.
(b) Hegel looks at ethics with respect to religion.
(c) Hegel looks at ethics with respect to individuality.
(d) Hegel looks at ethics with respect to culture.

3. How does Hegel describe each action?
(a) As divisive.
(b) As unifying.
(c) As self-contradictory.
(d) As an internal struggle.

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

5. In Hegel's opinion, what does the universal law of heart lead to?
(a) Science.
(b) Virtue.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Nature.

6. How does Virtue manifest Reason in a society according to Hegel?
(a) Through works of art.
(b) Through public and private acts.
(c) Through public rituals.
(d) Through work.

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

8. What serves as a model for duties for individuals in Hegel's opinion?
(a) Duty to the community.
(b) Duty to one's own education.
(c) Duty within the family.
(d) Duty to the spirit.

9. What term does Hegel use to describe the interrelation of Spirit with events?
(a) Occasions.
(b) Moments.
(c) Happenings.
(d) Spirit of the Times.

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

11. In Hegel's philosophy, what is the self caught between in its early stage?
(a) The present and history.
(b) Nature and ethical knowledge.
(c) Family and Civil Society.
(d) Individual and universal mind.

12. According the Hegel's philosophy, what is the one state where complete annihilation of difference occurs?
(a) Death.
(b) Loss.
(c) Self-awareness.
(d) Transcendentalism.

13. How does Hegel define the self at the higher level of consciousness?
(a) As "that which is perceiving what is."
(b) As "that which is always in exile.
(c) As "that which finds itself in everything.
(d) As "that which sees things in the true light of spirit.

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

15. In Hegel's philosophy, which aspect of mind can operate in ways that do not touch daily life in a cause-effect manner?
(a) Mind as such.
(b) Mind as self-awareness.
(c) Mind as Universal Spirit.
(d) Mind as individuality.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hegel describe the fulfillment of duty?

2. In Hegel's view, what does the spark of the Absolute represent?

3. Under what condition does Spirit mean Mind in Hegel's philosophy?

4. Why does Hegel say that "property" is superior to "no property"?

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

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