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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Bogachevsy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of education was Father Borsh in favor of having Gurdjieff pursue?
(a) a medical education
(b) the priesthood
(c) a military education
(d) a practical education in woodworking

2. Where did Gurdjieff''s father come from?
(a) from a Persian family living in Armenia
(b) from an Egyptian family who moved to Alexandropol
(c) from a Russian family who fled from Russia during hard times
(d) from a Greek family who had fled from the Turks in Byzantium

3. What state did Gurdjieff experience, according to Mullah Nassr Eddin's words, after many sleepless nights?
(a) "to feel oneself run over by a herd of camels"
(b) "to feel oneself tired to the bone"
(c) "to feel like death warmed over"
(d) "to feel oneself plunged in galoshes to the eyebrows"

4. Which two animals did Gurdjieff feel a man should embody?
(a) the lamb and the lion
(b) the wolf and the kid
(c) the wolf and the sheep
(d) the serpent and the dove

5. What did Krestovsky teach Gurdjieff?
(a) Scripture and Russian
(b) anatomy and psychology
(c) mathematics and physiology
(d) history and geography

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Gurdjieff meet Bogachevsky?

2. What subjects did Ponomarenko teach Gurdjieff?

3. Where did Gurdjieff witness his third ashokh contest?

4. Who was Kouzmin?

5. Why did the subject of spiritualism make a strong impression on Gurdjieff?

(see the answer key)

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