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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Spirit in Self-Estrangement- The Discipline of Culture.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Hegel's feeling about communism?
(a) He foresees problems with greed and workers' motivations.
(b) He likes the prospect of everyone being provided for.
(c) He warns against the prospect of militant radicals running the economy.
(d) He dreads the inevitable bureaucratization.

2. According to Hegel, why is the self unhappy?
(a) Because it can imagine fulfillment but never know it completely.
(b) Because it can never contact its unconscious sources.
(c) Because it will always be torn between the present contingency and infant perfection.
(d) Because it can imagine eternity, but has to die.

3. According to Hegel, what do people ultimately find as a result of Insight?
(a) Unity.
(b) Culture.
(c) Self-estrangement.
(d) Reconciliation.

4. How does Hegel describe the process of the World running its Course?
(a) Sad and unpleasant.
(b) Torturous and miserable.
(c) Exhilarating.
(d) Uplifting.

5. Where does universality have its reality according to Hegel?
(a) In history.
(b) In fate.
(c) In consciousness.
(d) In the particular.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hegel describe observation?

2. In Hegel's view, how are laws of thought connected?

3. What does Hegel explain in the introduction of The Phenomenology of Mind?

4. What is the main obstacle to the individual submitting to the good and the true in Hegel's view?

5. What does "the concrete" have in Hegel's account?

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