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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Hegel, what constitutes the Course of the World?
(a) The inner events that motivate external reality.
(b) The events of the world as external reality.
(c) The external reality that informs subjectivity.
(d) The heart and its desire and development.

2. What is the purpose of Hegel's treatise?
(a) To disprove the need for religion.
(b) To dispel superstition.
(c) To cultivate the scientific mind.
(d) To prove the existence and thoughts of God.

3. What does a man gain by doing good work in Hegel's view?
(a) Authority and riches.
(b) Access to the world-spirit.
(c) World-consciousness.
(d) Power and awareness.

4. According to Hegel's philosophy, independent self-consciousness is both an aspect of concrete individuality and what else?
(a) Thinghood insofar as the self is an object of knowledge.
(b) Scientific consciousness.
(c) Spirituality.
(d) Self-reflection as the process of expressing the self.

5. According to the translator, what does "the fact of the matter" refer to?
(a) Conditions surrounding an event.
(b) An absolute reality.
(c) Realities as they appear to subjectivity.
(d) An assertion of the truth of something.

6. What does Hegel say accompanies the process of Virtue bringing good into the world?
(a) Universalization of mind.
(b) Conformity and oppression.
(c) Dialogue and reconciliation.
(d) Struggle and suffering.

7. What relation binds the object and the perceiver in Hegel's philosophy?
(a) Understanding.
(b) History.
(c) Reason.
(d) The World-Spirit.

8. Where does Hegel see the opportunity for good to be manifest through the actions of human beings?
(a) In the conceit of individuality.
(b) In the heart.
(c) In the ruling elite.
(d) In external events.

9. How does Hegel describe notions?
(a) As actual things.
(b) As contingent on subjectivity.
(c) As anamnesis.
(d) As aspects of laws.

10. In Hegel's philosophy, what is the first stage in the development of the conscious mind?
(a) The sense of the uniqueness of the heart falls away.
(b) Universal heart is discovered through individual heart.
(c) Forces that contradict the individual's feelings occur.
(d) Individual heart is recognized by self-consciousness.

11. What is the purpose of an animal's mentality in Hegel's opinion?
(a) To evolve toward consciousness.
(b) To fulfill human purposes.
(c) To manifest the univeral mind.
(d) To match organic nature.

12. What does Hegel say is ultimately impossible for a human?
(a) Purposelessness.
(b) Self-awareness.
(c) Fulfillment.
(d) Transcendence.

13. What does Hegel say we have to see in order to understand the truth about a thing?
(a) The reality that perception is subjective and relative.
(b) The notion that things continue to exist regardless of our presence or absence.
(c) The possibility of there being something more than the thing itself.
(d) The possibility that there can be more than one thing at a time.

14. What does Hegel explain in the introduction of The Phenomenology of Mind?
(a) Where the work fits in the history of philosophy.
(b) Why the work is necessary to his times and to humanity.
(c) Where the inspiration for the work came from.
(d) Why he was the only one who could have written this work.

15. What does Hegel say about the concept of absolute reality?
(a) It can only be expressed in art and dreams.
(b) It is a consequence of self-consciousness.
(c) It is an empty notion.
(d) It is beyond the reach of consciousness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hegel say is the goal of individual self-consciousness?

2. What is meant by Hegel's term "practical reason"?

3. What else must an individual conquer in order to manifest individuality according to Hegel?

4. According to Hegel, how does the truth of concrete individuals manifest?

5. In Hegel's philosophy, what does the self want instead of the good and the true?

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