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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 assumption does Hegel make about God?
(a) That he is human and compassionate.
(b) That he is unreachable.
(c) That he is present.
(d) That he is perfect and timeless.

2. What kind of artwork does Hegel discuss as the foundation of revealed religion?
(a) The symphony.
(b) The hymn.
(c) The cathedral.
(d) The statue.

3. What is Hegel searching for in his discussion of morality?
(a) An innately moral level of self-consciousness.
(b) A level of self-consciousness that provides the basis for morality.
(c) An eternal morality.
(d) A morality that will emerge from 'moments'.

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

5. How does Hegel describe each action?
(a) As unifying.
(b) As self-contradictory.
(c) As divisive.
(d) As an internal struggle.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hegel describe the moral consciousness?

2. What in Hegel's view does individuality gain when it finds itself after being lost to the public order?

3. What qualities exist in both "no property" and "property" according to Hegel?

4. The spirit that creates artwork also creates what else according to Hegel?

5. What does Hegel describe as the theatre for ethical choices?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Hegel define duty?

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

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

5. In what way or under what conditions can self-consciousness itself be moral in Hegel's view?

6. Define the German word Geist.

7. How does Hegel define moments?

8. How does Hegel describe the Absolute Spirit?

9. What is the effect of Insight on self-consciousness, in Hegel's philosophy?

10. How does Hegel define Absolute Freedom?

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