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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 element of self-consciousness closest to the Absolute?
(a) Duty.
(b) Religion.
(c) Work.
(d) Spirit.

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

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

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

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

6. What does Hegel prepare for his readers in the last chapter?
(a) A theory of art.
(b) A theory of science.
(c) A map of the terrain ahead.
(d) A history of consciousness.

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

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

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

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

11. What does Hegel say has to be his starting point for consciousness?
(a) Hegel says that he has to begin from a moral view of the world.
(b) Hegel says that he has to begin from a spiritual view of the world.
(c) Hegel says that consciousness begins with self-conflict.
(d) Hegel says that consciousness begins with self-awareness.

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

13. What qualities exist in both "no property" and "property" according to Hegel?
(a) Consciousness and the unconscious.
(b) Consciousness and dialogue.
(c) Universality and particularity.
(d) Reconciliation and conflict.

14. In Hegel's view, what does the spark of the Absolute represent?
(a) The emergence of the light of consciousness.
(b) The medium in which light is carried.
(c) The essence of light and darkness unified.
(d) The eternal nature of virtue.

15. According to Hegel, how can absolute freedom be expressed?
(a) Through an activity that proceeds from the self.
(b) It cannot be expressed.
(c) Through self-fulling choices.
(d) Through negativity.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Hegel, what is the difficulty with self-consciousness manifesting morality?

2. What work marks the progress through Hegel's text and meanings?

3. In Hegel's philosophy, which aspect of mind can operate in ways that do not touch daily life in a cause-effect manner?

4. What is the center of moral life according to Hegel?

5. Which religion comes first, in Hegel's philosophy?

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