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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was allowed access to Father Borsh's room?
(a) Anyone seeking help or advice
(b) Any students at the Kars Military Cathedral
(c) Gurdjieff and Father Borsh's orderly
(d) Gurdjieff and Gurdjieff's father

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

3. Where is the chief monastery of the Essene Brotherhood situated?
(a) near the sea of Galilee
(b) in Nazareth
(c) not far from the shores of the Dead Sea
(d) near Jerusalem

4. How does Gurdjieff sum up the literature of his times?
(a) "it's trendy"
(b) "it's quite varied"
(c) "it's based on sensationalism"
(d) "it has no soul"

5. Besides having an accident with a firearm, what other prediction of the fortuneteller came true about Gurdjieff?
(a) A large sore, a carbuncle, appeared on Gurdjieff's side
(b) A severe rash broke out all over Gurdjieff's body
(c) Gurdjieff came down with pneumonia.
(d) Gurdjieff fell ill with a high fever

Short Answer Questions

1. Between what ages did Father Borsh feel a male was fully developed?

2. What is it impossible to do even if one is an excellent linguist?

3. Why does Gurdjieff criticize newspaper literary critics?

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

5. What language did the bards sing when they competed in contests?

(see the answer key)

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