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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. What field does Hegel defend in the Preface and Introduction?
(a) Science.
(b) Religion.
(c) Phrenology.
(d) Astrology.

2. How does the double consciousness unify according to Hegel's philosophy?
(a) By transcending the physical.
(b) By submission of the body to the spirit.
(c) Through mediation and transformation.
(d) By embracing the divine.

3. What becomes clear as the future becomes the past, according to Hegel?
(a) How certain events were inevitable.
(b) How free men are in their decisions.
(c) How free will is an illusion.
(d) How fate operates in every detail.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hegel describe observation?

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

3. According to the translator, what does "the fact of the matter" refer to?

4. What relation binds the object and the perceiver in Hegel's philosophy?

5. In Hegel's philosophy, what is the first stage in the development of the conscious mind?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the relationship of freedom and fate in Hegel's terminology?

2. How does Hegel define the relationship between the lord and the servant?

3. What qualities does an "organic entity" have according to Hegel?

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

5. How does Hegel define Reason?

6. What is the "conceit of individuality" and what force counters it according to Hegel's philosophy?

7. How does Hegel define hedonism?

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

9. What does a consciousness require in order to use observation at the level of Reason according to Hegel's philosophy?

10. Where do laws come from in Hegel's philosophy?

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