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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. Who was allowed access to Father Borsh's room?
(a) Gurdjieff and Gurdjieff's father
(b) Gurdjieff and Father Borsh's orderly
(c) Any students at the Kars Military Cathedral
(d) Anyone seeking help or advice

2. What would Gurdjieff's father do on evenings before Sundays and holidays?
(a) tell stories to his children
(b) go to bed late
(c) lay out his clothes for Sunday
(d) write letters to his friends

3. Gurdjieff intended to write his book in accordance with what counsel for living employed by Mullah Nassr Eddin?
(a) "strive to attain knowledge and use it in one's life"
(b) "strive to work hard, be modest and help others"
(c) "strive to attain what is useful for others and pleasant for oneself"
(d) "strive to be honest and virtuous in all that you do"

4. Why does Gurdjieff criticize newspaper literary critics?
(a) He is jealoous of them
(b) they can't write well
(c) they fool easily suggestible people and are deceitful
(d) they earn too much money for the work they do

5. What position did Gurdjieff's first tutor hold?
(a) He was dean of the Kars Military Cathedral
(b) He was the dean of a university
(c) He was a priest in Gurdjieff's church
(d) He was bishop of the Kars Cathedral

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Gurdjieff witness his third ashokh contest?

2. What did Gurdjieff dream of specializing in?

3. How did the stories Gurdjieff's father told him influence him in his later life?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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