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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Hegel describe the Absolute?
(a) Hegel describes the Absolute as the divine's commandments.
(b) Hegel describes the Absolute as an ontological condition.
(c) Hegel describes the Absolute as the negation of all differences.
(d) Hegel describes the Absolute as the end of philosophy.

3. What does conceit cause according to Hegel?
(a) Self-awareness.
(b) Impure motives and perversions.
(c) Individuality.
(d) Bad faith.

4. What does Hegel say self-consciousness can express as Absolute Spirit?
(a) The inner divinity of man.
(b) The perfection of man's will.
(c) The divine nature of fate.
(d) The inevitable nature of self-consciousness.

5. According to Hegel, what has Absolute Spirit developed into in the "beautiful soul"?
(a) The Absolute Spirit has disappeared as the beautiful soul manifests its own unique spirit.
(b) The Absolute Spirit has become a part of nature.
(c) The Absolute Spirit has become a functioning state of consciousness.
(d) The Absolute Spirit has become a tool for discerning truth.

6. According to Hegel, what does each action lead to?
(a) Unification of Spirit and Mind.
(b) The need to mediate with self-consciousness.
(c) A new occasion for self-awareness to be born.
(d) The death of all other possible actions.

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

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

9. In Hegel's opinion, what is superstition based on?
(a) Universal Mind.
(b) Transcendent experience.
(c) Inadequate knowledge.
(d) Spiritual intuition.

10. In Hegel's philosophy, in what way does the Spirit serve a two-fold function?
(a) It understands at the same time that it is beyond understanding, even to itself.
(b) It contains both the universal and eternal and the particular and contingent.
(c) It is acts at the same time that it reposes.
(d) It observes itself as object at the same time that it is subject.

11. Where does universality have its reality according to Hegel?
(a) In consciousness.
(b) In fate.
(c) In history.
(d) In the particular.

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

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

14. What is it about art that reveals religion in Hegel's view?
(a) Sacred inspiration.
(b) Balanced symmetries of form.
(c) Devoted craftsmanship.
(d) Human work.

15. According to Hegel, what is science's relationship with philosophy?
(a) It evolves together with philosophy.
(b) It is founded on philosophy.
(c) It influences the reality that can be known philosophically.
(d) It makes philosophy possible.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is freedom at the level of absolute freedom and terror caused by according to Hegel?

2. What is it that makes philosophy necessary and valuable according to Hegel?

3. What is the father of science in Hegel's opinion?

4. According the Hegel's philosophy, what is the one state where complete annihilation of difference occurs?

5. How does Hegel describe the fulfillment of duty?

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