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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 does "the concrete" have in Hegel's account?
(a) Consciousness.
(b) Unique life.
(c) Scientific self-certainty.
(d) Form and universals.

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

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

4. What does Hegel say we have to see in order to understand the truth about a thing?
(a) The possibility of there being something more than the thing itself.
(b) The possibility that there can be more than one thing at a time.
(c) The reality that perception is subjective and relative.
(d) The notion that things continue to exist regardless of our presence or absence.

5. What does consciousness rest on in Hegel's account?
(a) Reason.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Perception.
(d) Intuition.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hegel define "irritability"?

2. What rejection does the uniqueness of a self require according to Hegel?

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

4. According to Hegel, why is even a killer dissatisfied with the self-certainty that comes from killing another person?

5. How does Hegel describe notions?

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