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

2. Where did the second contest that Gurdjieff witnessed take place?
(a) Bagdad
(b) Karabakh in Azerbaijan
(c) Baku in Turkey
(d) Istanbul in Turkey

3. What did Father Borsh look like?
(a) He was short and fat and wore glasses
(b) He was large and robust with a ruddy complexion
(c) He was tall and thin, with a fine-looking face
(d) He was tall and big-boned with an intelligent face

4. What has the literature of contemporary civilization to give according to Gurdjieff?
(a) the development of "an illusory view of life"
(b) the development of "word prostitution"
(c) the development of "lies"
(d) the development of "superficiality in everyday life"

5. Between what ages did Father Borsh feel a male was fully developed?
(a) between the ages of nineteen and twenty-one
(b) between the ages of twenty and twenty-three
(c) between the ages of eighteen and twenty
(d) between the ages of nineteen and twenty-two

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Essene Brotherhood established?

2. What did Gurdjieff and Pogossian pursue together?

3. What did Pogossian look like?

4. What had Gurdjieff promised himself to do after completing his first series of writing?

5. How did Gurdjieff's father lose his fortune as the richest cattle owner in Armenia?

(see the answer key)

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