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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Bogachevsy.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What phenomenon do Bogachevsky and his friends experiment with?
(a) divining people's names by holding their hands
(b) disappearing rabbits
(c) summoning spirits from the dead using a medium
(d) "table turning"--laying hands on a table and asking it questions

3. With whom did Bogachevsky share lodgings?
(a) Ponomarenko
(b) Dean Borsh
(c) Krestovsky
(d) Nureyev

4. Who was Vseslavsky?
(a) an army chaplain friend of Bogchevsky
(b) Bogachevsky's brother-in-law
(c) a fellow-countryman of Bogachevsky and an army engineer
(d) Bogachevsky's childhood friend

5. What did the Yezidis believe?
(a) they cannot leave a circle that is drawn around them
(b) they are suseptible to many diseases
(c) they will some day take over the world
(d) they are the chosen-ones and have special powers

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it impossible to do even if one is an excellent linguist?

2. When did Gurdjieff meet Bogachevsky?

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

4. What did Bogachevsky counsel men to do in order to live a moral life?

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

(see the answer key)

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