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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 state did Gurdjieff experience, according to Mullah Nassr Eddin's words, after many sleepless nights?
(a) "to feel like death warmed over"
(b) "to feel oneself tired to the bone"
(c) "to feel oneself plunged in galoshes to the eyebrows"
(d) "to feel oneself run over by a herd of camels"

2. Where did Gurdjieff''s father come from?
(a) from a Greek family who had fled from the Turks in Byzantium
(b) from an Egyptian family who moved to Alexandropol
(c) from a Russian family who fled from Russia during hard times
(d) from a Persian family living in Armenia

3. Gurdjieff changed his custom of drinking armagnac from liqueur glasses to drinking from what kind of glass?
(a) tumblers
(b) shot glasses
(c) champagne glasses
(d) wine glasses

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Gurdjieff's father lose his fortune as the richest cattle owner in Armenia?

2. What is the title of the anecdote Gurdjieff uses to show the inferiority of modern life to ancient wisdom showing that modern life and literature are poison to the human race.

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

4. Why was the lumber yard that Gurdjieff's father opened a failure?

5. What has the literature of contemporary civilization to give according to Gurdjieff?

(see the answer key)

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