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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 it impossible to do even if one is an excellent linguist?
(a) speak more than five languages fluently
(b) speak like a native in a foreign language.
(c) dream in a foreign language
(d) think in a foreign language while speaking one's native tongue

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

3. What was Gurdjieff's youngest niece supposed to do for him?
(a) bring him cold drinks
(b) see that his Arabian coffee did not become cold in the cup
(c) sing to him while he sat under the trees
(d) fan him with a palm fan while he was working in the heat.

4. What did Gurdjieff propose to do in his second book, "Meetings with Remarkable Men"?
(a) create a consciousness devoid of illusions in people like himself
(b) write an entertaining book, enjoyable to everyone
(c) write a sort of travel log of his travels through exotic lands
(d) build up his ego, describing all his accomplishments

5. Why did Gurdjieff go to Alexandropol?
(a) to study with another tutor
(b) to earn money where he was known as a good craftsman
(c) to go on a vacation after his first years of study
(d) to visit his family

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Gurdjieff criticize newspaper literary critics?

2. Why did people think Dean Borsh was peculiar?

3. What did the Imastun brethren study?

4. According to Father Borsh what two things should a priest be able to do for the members of his flock?

5. In what town did the first of the ashokh contests which Gurdjieff witnessed take place?

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