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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 language did the bards sing when they competed in contests?
(a) Turkish
(b) Turko-Tartar
(c) Turko-Russian
(d) Russian

2. What did Bogachevsky counsel men to do in order to live a moral life?
(a) a man should follow his own conscience and not heed others
(b) a man should travel the world and observe people
(c) a man should study many subjects and become educated
(d) a man should try to please others

3. What did Sokolov teach Gurdjieff?
(a) mathematics and geography
(b) anatomy and physiology
(c) physics and mathematics
(d) Scripture and history

4. What was awakened in Gurdjieff while listening to Bogachevsky and his friends' discussions around the samovar?
(a) an interest in abstract questions and spiritualism
(b) an interest in becoming a member of the Essene Brotherhood
(c) a feeling of inferiority when he compared himself with them
(d) an interest in mathematics

5. What did the Yezidis believe?
(a) they are the chosen-ones and have special powers
(b) they cannot leave a circle that is drawn around them
(c) they are suseptible to many diseases
(d) they will some day take over the world

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Imastun brethren study?

2. What did Father Borsh look like?

3. What legend did Gurdjieff's father and Dean Borsh discuss all night while Gurdjieff and his uncle listened to them?

4. Who was allowed access to Father Borsh's room?

5. According to Gurdjieff, contemporary literature falls into which three categories?

(see the answer key)

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