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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pleasure and Necessity.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what way could Hegel see a person, a table and a fruit as all identical?
(a) They are all 'mind'.
(b) They are all 'objects of perception' to another person.
(c) They are all raw material for consciousness.
(d) They are all 'things'.

2. How does Hegel define a law?
(a) Anything that binds the freedom of an organic entity.
(b) Anything that appears with profound consistency.
(c) The relation of any element to the process of becoming an organic being.
(d) Anything capable of being observed as a perception of another.

3. What is it that indicates something about a person's unique traits, in Hegel's account?
(a) What a person does to their body.
(b) A person's heridity.
(c) The marks on a body.
(d) The person's original body.

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

5. Where does Hegel locate the beginning of scientific knowledge?
(a) In History.
(b) In self-knowledge.
(c) In God.
(d) In spirituality.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Hegel, for what purpose are Unity, Difference and Relation all necessary?

2. How does Hegel classify desires?

3. What is the reason of observation conjoined with, according to the translator? 

4. According to Hegel, what does an individual need to do to live wisely and virtuously?

5. What did cranioscopy examine?

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