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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Gurdjieff's youngest niece supposed to do for him?
(a) fan him with a palm fan while he was working in the heat.
(b) sing to him while he sat under the trees
(c) bring him cold drinks
(d) see that his Arabian coffee did not become cold in the cup

2. What did Dean Borsh teach Gurdjieff?
(a) Scripture and other subjects
(b) mathematics and other subjects
(c) geography and other subjects
(d) history and other subjects

3. What kind of education was Father Borsh in favor of having Gurdjieff pursue?
(a) a practical education in woodworking
(b) a military education
(c) a medical education
(d) the priesthood

4. When was the Essene Brotherhood established?
(a) four hundred years before the birth of Christ
(b) twelve hundred years before the birth of Christ
(c) during Christ's lifetime
(d) a thousand years before the birth of Christ

5. What had Gurdjieff promised himself to do after completing his first series of writing?
(a) visit his relatives and friends and relax
(b) consult with all his learned tutors
(c) drink all the bottles of Calvados in the wine cellar of the Prieure
(d) go on a vacation to the Black Sea

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Father Borsh's view about a youth before he attained adulthood?

2. How many books had Gurdjieff first planned to write ?

3. What legend did Gurdjieff's father and Dean Borsh discuss all night while Gurdjieff and his uncle listened to them?

4. Who was Kouzmin?

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

(see the answer key)

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