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

2. How did the stories Gurdjieff's father told him influence him in his later life?
(a) he remembered them when he suffered from insomnia
(b) he told them to his own children
(c) they were a spiritualizing factor, enabling him to comprehend the incomprehensible
(d) they were a constant reminder of his father and his father's goodness

3. What did the Imastun brethren study?
(a) astrology
(b) tablets from the Dead Sea
(c) ancient legends
(d) the bible

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

5. What did Gurdjieff's aunt warn him about?
(a) to take care not to have an accident with a firearm
(b) to study hard so that he could earn a good living
(c) not to marry too young
(d) to be faithful to his father's teachings

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the chief monastery of the Essene Brotherhood situated?

2. Who was Vseslavsky?

3. In what town did the first of the ashokh contests which Gurdjieff witnessed take place?

4. What did Gurdjieff propose to do in his second book, "Meetings with Remarkable Men"?

5. What did Dean Borsh teach Gurdjieff?

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