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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Hegel's feeling about communism?
(a) He dreads the inevitable bureaucratization.
(b) He warns against the prospect of militant radicals running the economy.
(c) He likes the prospect of everyone being provided for.
(d) He foresees problems with greed and workers' motivations.

2. According to Hegel, what is the element of self-consciousness closest to the Absolute?
(a) Work.
(b) Spirit.
(c) Duty.
(d) Religion.

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

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

5. What does Spirit represent for the Mind according to Hegel?
(a) Unity with truth.
(b) Historical consciousness.
(c) Unity with the Universal Mind.
(d) Class consciousness.

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

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

8. What does the belief in the Underworld transform into according to Hegel?
(a) A fear of death.
(b) A belief in Heaven.
(c) A stimulus for observing life closely.
(d) Scientific knowledge.

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

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

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

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

13. In Hegel's philosophy, enlightenment is superior to stages of development that are associated with what?
(a) Prophets.
(b) Philosophies.
(c) History.
(d) Individuality.

14. 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 individuality.
(c) Mind as such.
(d) Mind as self-awareness.

15. According to Hegel, what is there in common between tool making and the work of art?
(a) Both kinds of creation turns the creator into a spiritual workman.
(b) Both kinds of creation transform the means of industrial production.
(c) Both kinds of creation express the soul of a people.
(d) Both kinds of creation return people to a state of primal existence.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Hegel's philosophy, what will lead people to the goal of Absolute self-conscious Spirit?

2. What happens to the mind that gains a reprieve from the fear of death according to Hegel?

3. The spirit that creates artwork also creates what else according to Hegel?

4. According to Hegel, what has Absolute Spirit developed into in the "beautiful soul"?

5. How does Hegel describe the community he found himself living in?

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