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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 is "honest activity" related to?
(a) Seeming.
(b) The effects of action.
(c) The origins of action.
(d) Emptiness.

2. How does Hegel classify desires?
(a) The root of self-awareness.
(b) Demonic consciousness.
(c) Animal consciousness.
(d) Material existence.

3. According to Hegel, how does the truth of concrete individuals manifest?
(a) It manifests in action.
(b) It manifests in self-conflict.
(c) If manifests without any doubt.
(d) It manifests in every decision.

4. What does consciousness rest on in Hegel's account?
(a) Intuition.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Perception.
(d) Reason.

5. What else must an individual conquer in order to manifest individuality according to Hegel?
(a) The conceit of individuality.
(b) Organic consciousness.
(c) Artistic form of individual expression.
(d) Histoical situatedness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What development does Hegel explain in "Perception, Thing and Deceptiveness"?

2. What role does Hegel say society plays in how man determines his direction?

3. What is it that expresses both the individual and inner reality, in Hegel's view?

4. What does Hegel say we have to see in order to understand the truth about a thing?

5. Why does Hegel say that the relationship with the bondsman is not fulfilling for the lord?

Short Essay Questions

1. What obstacle is there, in Hegel's terminology, to an individual following the law of the heart?

2. How are notions and reality related according to Hegel's philosophy?

3. Why does Hegel describe consciousness as unhappy?

4. How does Hegel define "sensibility"?

5. How, in Hegel's view, does the self become aware of the contradiction of selfhood?

6. In Hegel's philosophy, what relationship do the sciences--particularly phrenology and craniology--have to do with truth?

7. What distinction does the translator Baille draw between "the fact of the matter" and "a matter of fact"?

8. How does Hegel characterize the Course of the World, and what is the result of overcoming it?

9. How does Hegel define Reason?

10. What are the components of a "concrete individuality" in Hegel's terminology?

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