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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. In Hegel's view, what does the spark of the Absolute represent?
(a) The essence of light and darkness unified.
(b) The medium in which light is carried.
(c) The emergence of the light of consciousness.
(d) The eternal nature of virtue.

2. 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.

3. What does Spirit represent for the Mind according to Hegel?
(a) Class consciousness.
(b) Historical consciousness.
(c) Unity with truth.
(d) Unity with the Universal Mind.

4. What does Hegel relate conscious activity to?
(a) Rain.
(b) Light.
(c) Darkness.
(d) Nature.

5. What is the center of moral life according to Hegel?
(a) Work.
(b) Love.
(c) Duty.
(d) Spirit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What work marks the progress through Hegel's text and meanings?

2. How does Hegel describe the moral consciousness?

3. What does Hegel say is the Divine?

4. How does Idealist philosophy describe the world?

5. According to Hegel, what is the difficulty with self-consciousness manifesting morality?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hegel define self-estrangement?

2. According to Hegel, what do artists and tool makers have in common?

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

4. What, in Hegel's view, is the purpose of life?

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

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

7. How does Hegel define the artificer?

8. How does Hegel define duty?

9. According to Hegel, how does the individual experience Absolute Knowledge?

10. What does Hegel mean by saying that every action is divisive?

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