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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 possibility of consciousness.
(d) The requirement to do good work.

2. What does Hegel equate with Spirit?
(a) Mind.
(b) Consciousness.
(c) History.
(d) Reason.

3. What in Hegel's view does individuality gain when it finds itself after being lost to the public order?
(a) Historical conciousness.
(b) Universality.
(c) Eternal life.
(d) Conscience.

4. What does Hegel say is the Divine?
(a) The self-consciousness.
(b) The spirit.
(c) The human.
(d) The world.

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

6. Who else reached similar conclusions to Hegel's, about the nature of Absolute self-consciousness?
(a) Renaissance philosophers.
(b) Pragmatist philosophers.
(c) Eastern philosophers.
(d) Enlightenment philosophers.

7. Which religion comes first, in Hegel's philosophy?
(a) Moral religion.
(b) Natural religion.
(c) Instinctual religion.
(d) Human religion.

8. What is the "beautiful soul's" relationship with morality according to Hegel?
(a) Morality is the beautiful soul's duty.
(b) Morality is effectively built-in to the beautiful soul
(c) Morality is one of the beautiful soul's tools.
(d) Morality is the means by which the soul attains its beauty.

9. How does Hegel approach morality?
(a) As a form of consciousness in itself.
(b) As a product of Spirit's development.
(c) As a reason for living.
(d) As a consequence of self-consiousness.

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

11. In Hegel's philosophy, where is duty found?
(a) In relation to family members and organizations.
(b) In good faith ethics.
(c) In relation to Mind.
(d) In relation to Spirit.

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

13. 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 foresees problems with greed and workers' motivations.
(d) He likes the prospect of everyone being provided for.

14. How does Hegel describe the moral consciousness?
(a) Hegel describes the moral consciousness as the face of the spirit.
(b) Hegel describes the moral consciousness as an amalgam of inconsistencies.
(c) Hegel describes the moral consciousness as the seed for the spirit.
(d) Hegel describes the moral consciousness as a catch-all of intentions.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the stage after the "beautiful soul" in Hegel's view?

3. What does Insight cause people to find according to Hegel?

4. What is Hegel searching for in his discussion of morality?

5. What emerges after self-estrangement fades according to Hegel?

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