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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Mr. X or Captain Pogossian.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Pogossian's parents do for a living?
(a) His father was a potter, his mother a seamstress.
(b) His father was a merchant, his mother a housewife.
(c) His father was a dyer, his mother an embroideress in gold
(d) His father was a teacher, his mother a laundress.

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

3. Where did Captain Pogossian spend his childhood?
(a) in Transcaucasia, in the town of Kars
(b) in Turkey, in Ephesus
(c) in Greece, on the island of Patmos
(d) in Russia, on the Black Sea

4. When did Gurdjieff meet Bogachevsky?
(a) when Bogachevsky was old and intending to retire
(b) when Bogachevsky was ill
(c) when Bogachevsky was young and about to become a priest
(d) when Gurdjieff traveled to Russia

5. How does Gurdjieff sum up the literature of his times?
(a) "it's quite varied"
(b) "it has no soul"
(c) "it's based on sensationalism"
(d) "it's trendy"

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Essene Brotherhood established?

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

3. Gurdjieff changed his custom of drinking armagnac from liqueur glasses to drinking from what kind of glass?

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

5. What kind of education was Father Borsh in favor of having Gurdjieff pursue?

(see the answer key)

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