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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. According to Hegel, self-consciousness is aware of itself relative to what?
(a) Desire and loss.
(b) Conscience and desire.
(c) Objects and universals.
(d) Infant fulfillment and abstract promises.

2. How does Hegel describe observation?
(a) A contingent on subjectivity.
(b) As necessarily flawed.
(c) As a reliable process.
(d) As a mobile army of metaphors.

3. According to Hegel, what constitutes the Course of the World?
(a) The heart and its desire and development.
(b) The events of the world as external reality.
(c) The external reality that informs subjectivity.
(d) The inner events that motivate external reality.

4. According to Hegel, what does an individual need to do to live wisely and virtuously?
(a) Develop new ways of doing things.
(b) Live their lives.
(c) Conform to their culture.
(d) Express themselves in acts and words.

5. How does Hegel classify desires?
(a) Demonic consciousness.
(b) Material existence.
(c) The root of self-awareness.
(d) Animal consciousness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes the formation of laws according to Hegel?

2. How does Hegel describe the self?

3. What qualities does Hegel describe as being necessary for organic entities?

4. How does Hegel describe reason?

5. What does Hegel say the meaning of life is for every individual?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hegel define force?

2. How does Hegel define Reason?

3. What obstacle is there, in Hegel's terminology, to an individual following the law of the heart?

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

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

6. What distinction does the translator Baille draw between "the fact of the matter" and "a matter of fact"?

7. What was the relationship between philosophy and science in Hegel's time?

8. What is the "conceit of individuality" and what force counters it according to Hegel's philosophy?

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

10. How does Hegel define "irritability"?

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