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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. How does Hegel describe the Absolute?
(a) Hegel describes the Absolute as an ontological condition.
(b) Hegel describes the Absolute as the divine's commandments.
(c) Hegel describes the Absolute as the end of philosophy.
(d) Hegel describes the Absolute as the negation of all differences.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Idealist philosophy describe the world?

2. How does Hegel describe each action?

3. What assumption does Hegel make about God?

4. What does Hegel see in his ideal form of art?

5. When does the complete spiritual being begin to function in the world according to Hegel?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hegel define self-estrangement?

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

3. How does Hegel define moments?

4. How do light and dark function in natural religion, in Hegel's view?

5. What is God's relationship with the work of art, in Hegel's view?

6. According to Hegel, what effect does the awareness of death have on the self?

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

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

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

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

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