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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. 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) dream in a foreign language
(c) speak more than five languages fluently
(d) speak like a native in a foreign language.

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

3. What had Gurdjieff promised himself to do after completing his first series of writing?
(a) visit his relatives and friends and relax
(b) consult with all his learned tutors
(c) go on a vacation to the Black Sea
(d) drink all the bottles of Calvados in the wine cellar of the Prieure

4. In which towns did Gurdjieff's family live during his childhood?
(a) Karabakh and Alexandropol
(b) Kabul and Baku
(c) Alexandropol and Kars
(d) Baku and Van

5. 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 Creation of the World"
(b) the legend of the "Flood before the Flood"
(c) the legend of " The Lost City of Babul"
(d) the legend of "the Secret of the Gobi Desert"

Short Answer Questions

1. Gurdjieff changed his custom of drinking armagnac from liqueur glasses to drinking from what kind of glass?

2. What was Gurdjieff's father forced to become because of life's circumstances?

3. What did the Imastun brethren study?

4. How did Gurdjieff view his father?

5. What was an ashokh which Gurdjieff's father was?

(see the answer key)

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