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

2. What did Krestovsky teach Gurdjieff?
(a) anatomy and psychology
(b) history and geography
(c) Scripture and Russian
(d) mathematics and physiology

3. 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.
(a) "The Conversation of Two Swallows"
(b) "The Conversation of the Two Sparrows"
(c) "The Conversation of Two Crows"
(d) "The Conversation of Two Robins"

4. Between what ages did Father Borsh feel a male was fully developed?
(a) between the ages of twenty and twenty-three
(b) between the ages of nineteen and twenty-one
(c) between the ages of eighteen and twenty
(d) between the ages of nineteen and twenty-two

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who, in Gurdjieff's opinion, invents the grammar of languages?

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

4. What position did Gurdjieff's first tutor hold?

5. What kind of education was Father Borsh in favor of having Gurdjieff pursue?

(see the answer key)

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