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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Observation of Nature as an Organic Whole.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the result of force in Hegel's philosophy?
(a) A reassessment of relationships.
(b) A new understanding.
(c) A new law.
(d) A new authority.

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

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

4. How else do the inner and outer relate, besides being opposites according to Hegel?
(a) The inner is also dependent on the outer.
(b) The outer is also dependent on the inner.
(c) They are also complementary.
(d) They are also mutually dependent.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hegel define "irritability"?

2. How does Hegel describe force?

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

4. How does Hegel describe the self?

5. What does Hegel say the meaning of life is for every individual?

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