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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, what does each action lead to?
(a) A new occasion for self-awareness to be born.
(b) The death of all other possible actions.
(c) The need to mediate with self-consciousness.
(d) Unification of Spirit and Mind.

2. How does Hegel describe the moral consciousness?
(a) Hegel describes the moral consciousness as an amalgam of inconsistencies.
(b) Hegel describes the moral consciousness as the face of the spirit.
(c) Hegel describes the moral consciousness as a catch-all of intentions.
(d) Hegel describes the moral consciousness as the seed for the spirit.

3. In Hegel's philosophy, in what way does the Spirit serve a two-fold function?
(a) It is acts at the same time that it reposes.
(b) It contains both the universal and eternal and the particular and contingent.
(c) It observes itself as object at the same time that it is subject.
(d) It understands at the same time that it is beyond understanding, even to itself.

4. In Hegel's opinion, what is superstition based on?
(a) Spiritual intuition.
(b) Inadequate knowledge.
(c) Universal Mind.
(d) Transcendent experience.

5. Who else reached similar conclusions to Hegel's, about the nature of Absolute self-consciousness?
(a) Renaissance philosophers.
(b) Pragmatist philosophers.
(c) Eastern philosophers.
(d) Enlightenment philosophers.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Hegel's philosophy, enlightenment is superior to stages of development that are associated with what?

2. Why does Hegel say that "property" is superior to "no property"?

3. What term does Hegel use to describe the interrelation of Spirit with events?

4. What is Hegel searching for in his discussion of morality?

5. What does Hegel include in the religion of art?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the difference between "property" and "no property" in Hegel's view?

3. How does Hegel define the artificer?

4. According to Hegel's philosophy, what is the progression the self follows?

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

6. How does Hegel define duty?

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

8. How is the Divine Being revealed, in Hegel's philosophy?

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

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

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