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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) Russian
(b) Turko-Tartar
(c) Turkish
(d) Turko-Russian

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

3. According to Father Borsh what two things should a priest be able to do for the members of his flock?
(a) give them Holy Communion and perform marriages etc.
(b) teach them Scripture and pray for them
(c) be an example for them of holiness and teach Scripture
(d) care for their souls and cure their physical diseases

4. 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) they were a spiritualizing factor, enabling him to comprehend the incomprehensible
(d) he remembered them when he suffered from insomnia

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 Secret of the Gobi Desert"
(c) the legend of " The Lost City of Babul"
(d) the legend of the "Flood before the Flood"

Short Answer Questions

1. What subjects did Ponomarenko teach Gurdjieff?

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

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

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

5. How did Gurdjieff 's father react when misfortunes befell him?

(see the answer key)

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