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

2. Why did people think Dean Borsh was peculiar?
(a) He wore outlandish clothes.
(b) He was afraid of cats.
(c) He spoke in riddles.
(d) His views were odd and though rich, he lived in one room.

3. How many books had Gurdjieff first planned to write ?
(a) thirty-four
(b) thirty-six
(c) thirty-two
(d) thirty-one

4. Between what ages did Father Borsh feel a male was fully developed?
(a) between the ages of nineteen and twenty-two
(b) between the ages of nineteen and twenty-one
(c) between the ages of eighteen and twenty
(d) between the ages of twenty and twenty-three

5. Why was the lumber yard that Gurdjieff's father opened a failure?
(a) People were poor and couldn't afford lumber
(b) His father had no business experience and was too honest
(c) Gurdjieff's father had too many enemies and not enough customers
(d) A disease attacked the forests in the area

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Essene Brotherhood established?

2. Who, in Gurdjieff's opinion, invents the grammar of languages?

3. What was Gurdjieff's father forced to become because of life's circumstances?

4. What was the title of the first book in Gurdjieff's series?

5. What did Gurdjieff dream of specializing in?

(see the answer key)

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