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

2. How do objects achieve identity according to Hegel?
(a) Through reflection.
(b) Through self awareness.
(c) Through determinateness.
(d) Through assertion.

3. Which claim does Hegel make about the mind?
(a) That it can only see itself through Reason.
(b) That it is exempt from claims about observations.
(c) That it can observe itself.
(d) That it is the basis of all claims about reality.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hegel describe reason?

2. What field does Hegel defend in the Preface and Introduction?

3. What are the elements in Hegel's account?

4. Observation functions with regard to what in Hegel's philosophy?

5. What does Hegel explain in the introduction of The Phenomenology of Mind?

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