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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. How does Hegel describe force?
(a) Force is an attempt to transfer understanding.
(b) Force is impersonal, natural, and divine.
(c) Force is a human power to be used against nature.
(d) Force is an eternal power in the world.

2. What does Hegel say the meaning of life is for every individual?
(a) "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
(b) "To know the self."
(c) "To be myself."
(d) "To fulfill the self."

3. What does Hegel say is ultimately impossible for a human?
(a) Transcendence.
(b) Purposelessness.
(c) Self-awareness.
(d) Fulfillment.

4. In Hegel's terminology, what does the term "sensibility" pertain to?
(a) A mental construct that organizes sensations.
(b) A zeitgeist, a spirit of the times.
(c) A physiological apparatus for perception.
(d) An entity whose end is itself.

5. According to Hegel, self-consciousness is aware of itself relative to what?
(a) Desire and loss.
(b) Infant fulfillment and abstract promises.
(c) Conscience and desire.
(d) Objects and universals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Hegel locate the beginning of scientific knowledge?

2. In what way could Hegel see a person, a table and a fruit as all identical?

3. What does "the concrete" have in Hegel's account?

4. How does Hegel describe the self?

5. How does Hegel describe notions?

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