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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is it that makes philosophy necessary and valuable according to Hegel?
(a) The nature of life itself.
(b) The requirement to do good work.
(c) The evolution of scientific knowledge.
(d) The possibility of consciousness.

3. Which culture does Hegel credit with inspiring his insights?
(a) Greek cults.
(b) Norse cults.
(c) Egyptian religion.
(d) Syrian religion.

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

5. What does the "artificer" represent in Hegel's philosophy?
(a) The artificer represents thought combined with action upon reality.
(b) The artificer represents the light of the Absolute shining into the consciousness.
(c) The artificer represents constant artistic self-reinvention.
(d) The artificer represents the manifestation of Absolute Mind.

6. What is freedom at the level of absolute freedom and terror caused by according to Hegel?
(a) Freedom at this level is caused by the unity of all things.
(b) Freedom at this level is caused by the inexorable nature of fate.
(c) Freedom at this level is caused by the particular thingness of all things.
(d) Freedom at this level is caused by the absence of all distinctions.

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

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

9. When does the complete spiritual being begin to function in the world according to Hegel?
(a) When the Absolute is established as a modus operandi.
(b) When the soul begins its work within the self.
(c) When the philosopher discovers the Absolute.
(d) When the soul completes its work in society.

10. 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 Universal Spirit.
(b) Mind as self-awareness.
(c) Mind as individuality.
(d) Mind as such.

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

12. What does Hegel focus on when he talks about the abstract work of art?
(a) The cathedral.
(b) The abstract painting.
(c) The hymn.
(d) The sonata.

13. How does Idealist philosophy describe the world?
(a) As the result of divine work.
(b) As the externalization of animist rituals.
(c) As the manifestation of human divinity.
(d) As full of attributes of consciousness.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What assumption does Hegel make about God?

2. In Hegel's philosophy, enlightenment is superior to stages of development that are associated with what?

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

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

5. What does Hegel relate conscious activity to?

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