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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the "artificer" represent in Hegel's philosophy?
(a) The artificer represents the manifestation of Absolute Mind.
(b) The artificer represents thought combined with action upon reality.
(c) The artificer represents constant artistic self-reinvention.
(d) The artificer represents the light of the Absolute shining into the consciousness.

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

3. In Hegel's philosophy, what is the relation between property and no property?
(a) They are complementary and interdependent.
(b) They are mutually exclusive.
(c) They are opposites and coexisting ideas.
(d) They are opposites.

4. At the level of freedom and terror, what does self-consciousness have according to Hegel?
(a) Partial identification with the universal mind.
(b) Unity with the divine mind.
(c) Existential dread.
(d) Self-certainty.

5. What happens when Spirit turns back on itself according to Hegel?
(a) It reconciles history and the present.
(b) It makes further progress.
(c) It unifies spirit and mind.
(d) It raises consciousness to a higher level.

6. How does Hegel approach morality?
(a) As a product of Spirit's development.
(b) As a form of consciousness in itself.
(c) As a consequence of self-consiousness.
(d) As a reason for living.

7. What dictum does Hegel endorse?
(a) Know thyself.
(b) Love thy neighbor as thyself.
(c) Speak only when necessary.
(d) Do what you are afraid to do.

8. What does Hegel say is the Divine?
(a) The world.
(b) The human.
(c) The spirit.
(d) The self-consciousness.

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

10. What happens to the mind that gains a reprieve from the fear of death according to Hegel?
(a) The mind that is reprieved from fear of death loses meaning.
(b) The mind that is reprieved from fear of death reconciles death with meaninglessness.
(c) The mind that is reprieved from fear of death loses absolute freedom.
(d) The mind that is reprieved from fear of death gains individuality.

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

12. What does Hegel see in his ideal form of art?
(a) The Eternal bound within a moment's work.
(b) The Absolute within self-consciousness as a subject.
(c) The Divine manifested in an individual craftsman.
(d) The hymn in a still, perfect form.

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

14. What serves as a model for duties for individuals in Hegel's opinion?
(a) Duty to one's own education.
(b) Duty to the spirit.
(c) Duty within the family.
(d) Duty to the community.

15. What does Hegel say has to be his starting point for consciousness?
(a) Hegel says that he has to begin from a spiritual view of the world.
(b) Hegel says that consciousness begins with self-awareness.
(c) Hegel says that consciousness begins with self-conflict.
(d) Hegel says that he has to begin from a moral view of the world.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does morality operate according to Hegel?

2. According to Hegel, what do people ultimately find as a result of Insight?

3. What does Hegel say self-consciousness can express as Absolute Spirit?

4. In Hegel's opinion, what is superstition based on?

5. How is belief transformed into enlightenment according to Hegel?

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