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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 legend did Gurdjieff's father and Dean Borsh discuss all night while Gurdjieff and his uncle listened to them?
(a) the legend of "the Secret of the Gobi Desert"
(b) the legend of the "Flood before the Flood"
(c) the legend of "the Creation of the World"
(d) the legend of " The Lost City of Babul"

2. Where did Gurdjieff witness his third ashokh contest?
(a) Istanbul in Turkey
(b) Teheran in Persia
(c) Kabul in the region of Afghanistan
(d) Subatan in the region of Kars

3. What is it impossible to do even if one is an excellent linguist?
(a) speak more than five languages fluently
(b) think in a foreign language while speaking one's native tongue
(c) dream in a foreign language
(d) speak like a native in a foreign language.

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

5. Which two animals did Gurdjieff feel a man should embody?
(a) the lamb and the lion
(b) the wolf and the sheep
(c) the wolf and the kid
(d) the serpent and the dove

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was allowed access to Father Borsh's room?

2. When did Gurdjieff meet Bogachevsky?

3. Where did Captain Pogossian spend his childhood?

4. How did Gurdjieff and Pogossian happen to meet?

5. What did the Imastun brethren study?

(see the answer key)

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