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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 conceit cause according to Hegel?
(a) Individuality.
(b) Self-awareness.
(c) Impure motives and perversions.
(d) Bad faith.

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

3. What is the ultimate result of action according to Hegel?
(a) Reconciliation of the universal and the particular.
(b) Renewed conflict within the self.
(c) Self-awareness.
(d) Ethical behavior.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hegel look at ethics in the "Moral View of the World" chapter?

2. Whose work did Hegel write in the shadow of?

3. According to Hegel, what do people ultimately find as a result of Insight?

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

5. How does Hegel describe the community he found himself living in?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Hegel, what does the law of heart do to an individual who follows it?

2. According to Hegel's philosophy, what is the individual's relationship with society, in terms of the development of ethical behavior?

3. What does the statue represent in Hegel's view?

4. How does Hegel define self-estrangement?

5. What is enlightenment and what are its consequences according to Hegel?

6. What does Hegel say about the distribution of wealth?

7. In Hegel's philosophy, what is the difference between conscience and the moral self-consciousness?

8. How does Hegel define Absolute Freedom?

9. What is the two-fold function of Spirit, in Hegel's philosophy?

10. What is the contradiction that governs the self's relationship with morality, in Hegel's view?

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