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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the contradiction at the heart of absolute reality according to Hegel?
(a) It is real but it is also a myth that is propagated in philosophy.
(b) The individual learns about existence from individual existence and also from external reality.
(c) Literacy and printing presses have made experiences transferable to people have not had the experience themselves.
(d) The individual intuits the existence of life beyond himself but can never know anything except through direct perception.

2. What relation binds the object and the perceiver in Hegel's philosophy?
(a) Reason.
(b) The World-Spirit.
(c) History.
(d) Understanding.

3. What does a man gain by doing good work in Hegel's view?
(a) Power and awareness.
(b) World-consciousness.
(c) Access to the world-spirit.
(d) Authority and riches.

4. According to Hegel, for what purpose are Unity, Difference and Relation all necessary?
(a) For the evolution of man.
(b) For the reconciliation of man with himself.
(c) For the development of consciousness.
(d) For the development of self-reflection.

5. What rejection does the uniqueness of a self require according to Hegel?
(a) Rejection of the other.
(b) Rejection of the past.
(c) Rejection of the eternal.
(d) Rejection of the abstract.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are noumena according to Hegel?

2. What is the purpose of Hegel's treatise?

3. What does Hegel say is impossible in animal life?

4. What does Hegel say is the goal of individual self-consciousness?

5. How does Hegel describe force?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hegel define the relationship between the lord and the servant?

2. What are the two meanings Hegel gives to the term "independent self-consciousness"?

3. How does Hegel characterize the Course of the World, and what is the result of overcoming it?

4. What is the relationship of freedom and fate in Hegel's terminology?

5. Where do laws come from in Hegel's philosophy?

6. What does "concrete" mean in Hegel's terminology?

7. What are the stages by which the conscious mind develops, in Hegel's terminology?

8. What does a consciousness require in order to use observation at the level of Reason according to Hegel's philosophy?

9. What is the difference between a person and an animal in Hegel's philosophy?

10. How are notions and reality related according to Hegel's philosophy?

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