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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 does Hegel say the meaning of life is for every individual?
(a) "To fulfill the self."
(b) "To be myself."
(c) "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
(d) "To know the self."

2. What do both parts of a lordship/bondage relationship seek in Hegel's philosophy?
(a) Dominance.
(b) Self-certainty of consciousness.
(c) The elimination of the other.
(d) Equilibrium.

3. What does "the concrete" have in Hegel's account?
(a) Form and universals.
(b) Scientific self-certainty.
(c) Unique life.
(d) Consciousness.

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

5. How does Hegel describe force?
(a) Force is an eternal power in the world.
(b) Force is impersonal, natural, and divine.
(c) Force is an attempt to transfer understanding.
(d) Force is a human power to be used against nature.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it that expresses both the individual and inner reality, in Hegel's view?

2. Where does Hegel see the opportunity for good to be manifest through the actions of human beings?

3. What is meant by Hegel's term "practical reason"?

4. According to Hegel, what is it that prevents the development of consciousness from producing societal problems?

5. What does Hegel say we have to see in order to understand the truth about a thing?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Hegel define hedonism?

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

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

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

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

7. In Hegel's philosophy, what relationship do the sciences--particularly phrenology and craniology--have to do with truth?

8. How, in Hegel's view, does the self become aware of the contradiction of selfhood?

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

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

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