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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, My First Tutor.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What had Gurdjieff's family first intended him to be?
(a) a priest
(b) an ashokh or bard
(c) a cattle herder
(d) a soldier

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) A disease attacked the forests in the area
(c) People were poor and couldn't afford lumber
(d) His father had no business experience and was too honest

3. What tendency of his father's nature was defined by Gurdieff as virtuous?
(a) his father didn't take advantage of people's naivete or bad luck
(b) His father was extremely reliable in his business dealings
(c) His father was loyal to his family and friends
(d) His father never told a lie

4. What was an ashokh which Gurdjieff's father was?
(a) a farmer owning a large herd of either cattle or sheep
(b) a musician who played an instrument unique to Turkey
(c) a skilled craftsman in many countries of the Transcaucasia
(d) a bard who composed, recited or sang songs, poems, etc.

5. How did the stories Gurdjieff's father told him influence him in his later life?
(a) he told them to his own children
(b) they were a spiritualizing factor, enabling him to comprehend the incomprehensible
(c) he remembered them when he suffered from insomnia
(d) they were a constant reminder of his father and his father's goodness

Short Answer Questions

1. In which towns did Gurdjieff's family live during his childhood?

2. What did Father Borsh think that the gratification of lust before adulthood would do to a youth?

3. Where did Gurdjieff''s father come from?

4. What state did Gurdjieff experience, according to Mullah Nassr Eddin's words, after many sleepless nights?

5. Where did the second contest that Gurdjieff witnessed take place?

(see the answer key)

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