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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, My Father.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How did the stories Gurdjieff's father told him influence him in his later life?
(a) they were a spiritualizing factor, enabling him to comprehend the incomprehensible
(b) he told them to his own children
(c) he remembered them when he suffered from insomnia
(d) they were a constant reminder of his father and his father's goodness
2. What state did Gurdjieff experience, according to Mullah Nassr Eddin's words, after many sleepless nights?
(a) "to feel oneself run over by a herd of camels"
(b) "to feel like death warmed over"
(c) "to feel oneself plunged in galoshes to the eyebrows"
(d) "to feel oneself tired to the bone"
3. What is it impossible to do even if one is an excellent linguist?
(a) think in a foreign language while speaking one's native tongue
(b) speak more than five languages fluently
(c) dream in a foreign language
(d) speak like a native in a foreign language.
4. How did Gurdjieff view his father?
(a) like a friend who was somewhat beneath him
(b) like a fool whom he had no respect for
(c) like a very stern patriarch whom he feared
(d) like an older brother who instilled high ideals in him
5. What was the title of the introduction Gurdjieff had originally planned for the thirtieth book?
(a) "Why I Am Against Contemporary Literature"
(b) " The Meaning of Life as I Discovered It"
(c) " A New World Devoid of Illusions"
(d) "Why I Became a Writer"
Short Answer Questions
1. Where did Gurdjieff''s father come from?
2. What had Gurdjieff promised himself to do after completing his first series of writing?
3. Gurdjieff changed his custom of drinking armagnac from liqueur glasses to drinking from what kind of glass?
4. According to Gurdjieff, contemporary literature falls into which three categories?
5. Who, in Gurdjieff's opinion, invents the grammar of languages?
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