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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Krestovsky teach Gurdjieff?
(a) Scripture and Russian
(b) anatomy and psychology
(c) history and geography
(d) mathematics and physiology

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

3. Where did Gurdjieff''s father come from?
(a) from a Persian family living in Armenia
(b) from a Greek family who had fled from the Turks in Byzantium
(c) from a Russian family who fled from Russia during hard times
(d) from an Egyptian family who moved to Alexandropol

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

5. Why does Gurdjieff criticize newspaper literary critics?
(a) they earn too much money for the work they do
(b) they fool easily suggestible people and are deceitful
(c) He is jealoous of them
(d) they can't write well

6. In what town did the first of the ashokh contests which Gurdjieff witnessed take place?
(a) Viestock in Persia
(b) Istanbul in Turkey
(c) Tabul in Turkey
(d) Van in Turkey

7. Gurdjieff intended to write his book in accordance with what counsel for living employed by Mullah Nassr Eddin?
(a) "strive to work hard, be modest and help others"
(b) "strive to be honest and virtuous in all that you do"
(c) "strive to attain what is useful for others and pleasant for oneself"
(d) "strive to attain knowledge and use it in one's life"

8. When was the Essene Brotherhood established?
(a) twelve hundred years before the birth of Christ
(b) four hundred years before the birth of Christ
(c) during Christ's lifetime
(d) a thousand years before the birth of Christ

9. What was Gurdjieff's purpose in traveling to Echmiadzin?
(a) He was looking for work since he was out of money.
(b) He was on holiday.
(c) He was visiting relatives.
(d) He sought answers to questions of supernatural phenomena.

10. What did Father Borsh think that the gratification of lust before adulthood would do to a youth?
(a) make a man of him
(b) stunt his growth
(c) turn him into a monstrosity
(d) drive him insane

11. What did Sokolov teach Gurdjieff?
(a) anatomy and physiology
(b) physics and mathematics
(c) Scripture and history
(d) mathematics and geography

12. Who are the Yezidis?
(a) hermits who are considered holy men
(b) a sect living in Transcaucasia called devil-worshippers
(c) a primitive tribe living in the Gobi desert
(d) whirling dervishes

13. Who was the fortuneteller whom Gurdjieff's aunt consulted?
(a) the idiot , Ivan Ivanovich
(b) the psychic, Feodor Moussorsky
(c) the half-wit, Nicolai Brandikoff
(d) the half-wit, Eoung-Ashokh Mardiross

14. What kind of education was Father Borsh in favor of having Gurdjieff pursue?
(a) a practical education in woodworking
(b) the priesthood
(c) a military education
(d) a medical education

15. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did Gurdjieff's father carry on long conversations about philosophy and theology?

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

3. What legend did Gurdjieff's father and Dean Borsh discuss all night while Gurdjieff and his uncle listened to them?

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

5. What phenomenon do Bogachevsky and his friends experiment with?

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