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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 subjects did Ponomarenko teach Gurdjieff?
(a) philosophy and Turkish
(b) Russian and geography
(c) geography and history
(d) mathematics and history

2. What state did Gurdjieff experience, according to Mullah Nassr Eddin's words, after many sleepless nights?
(a) "to feel oneself tired to the bone"
(b) "to feel like death warmed over"
(c) "to feel oneself plunged in galoshes to the eyebrows"
(d) "to feel oneself run over by a herd of camels"

3. What was Father Borsh's view about a youth before he attained adulthood?
(a) He was responsible for his acts.
(b) He should be severely punished for wrong doing
(c) He was a non-entity.
(d) He wasn't responsible for any of his acts

4. How many books had Gurdjieff first planned to write ?
(a) thirty-two
(b) thirty-one
(c) thirty-four
(d) thirty-six

5. With whom did Gurdjieff's father carry on long conversations about philosophy and theology?
(a) with Gurdjieff himself
(b) with his brother, Gurdjieff's beloved uncle
(c) with Gurdjieff's first tutor, Dean Borsh
(d) with his close friend, Ivan Ivanovich

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What was the title of the first book in Gurdjieff's series?

4. What was Gurdjieff's youngest niece supposed to do for him?

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

(see the answer key)

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