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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 is the title of the anecdote Gurdjieff uses to show the inferiority of modern life to ancient wisdom showing that modern life and literature are poison to the human race.
(a) "The Conversation of Two Robins"
(b) "The Conversation of Two Swallows"
(c) "The Conversation of the Two Sparrows"
(d) "The Conversation of Two Crows"

2. What legend did Gurdjieff's father and Dean Borsh discuss all night while Gurdjieff and his uncle listened to them?
(a) the legend of "the Secret of the Gobi Desert"
(b) the legend of the "Flood before the Flood"
(c) the legend of " The Lost City of Babul"
(d) the legend of "the Creation of the World"

3. When did Gurdjieff meet Bogachevsky?
(a) when Gurdjieff traveled to Russia
(b) when Bogachevsky was young and about to become a priest
(c) when Bogachevsky was old and intending to retire
(d) when Bogachevsky was ill

4. What was Gurdjieff's father forced to become because of life's circumstances?
(a) a store keeper
(b) a farmer
(c) a fisherman
(d) a professional carpenter

5. How does Gurdjieff first meet Dean Borsh?
(a) after joining the cathedral choir
(b) on a street in Kars, his childhood home town
(c) at a funeral of a family friend
(d) in his father's workshop

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did the second contest that Gurdjieff witnessed take place?

3. What tendency of his father's nature was defined by Gurdieff as virtuous?

4. How did the stories Gurdjieff's father told him influence him in his later life?

5. What, in Gurdjieff's opinion, has harmed contemporary literature?

(see the answer key)

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