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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did Gurdjieff 's father react when misfortunes befell him?
(a) He wept and wailed
(b) He cursed God and his fate
(c) He had an inner calm and detachment
(d) He sought comfort from his friends and family

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

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

5. 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 "Flood before the Flood"
(b) the legend of "the Secret of the Gobi Desert"
(c) the legend of "the Creation of the World"
(d) the legend of " The Lost City of Babul"

6. What had Gurdjieff promised himself to do after completing his first series of writing?
(a) drink all the bottles of Calvados in the wine cellar of the Prieure
(b) go on a vacation to the Black Sea
(c) consult with all his learned tutors
(d) visit his relatives and friends and relax

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

8. With whom did Gurdjieff's father carry on long conversations about philosophy and theology?
(a) with his close friend, Ivan Ivanovich
(b) with Gurdjieff himself
(c) with Gurdjieff's first tutor, Dean Borsh
(d) with his brother, Gurdjieff's beloved uncle

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

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

11. What language did the bards sing when they competed in contests?
(a) Turko-Tartar
(b) Russian
(c) Turko-Russian
(d) Turkish

12. Who was Kouzmin?
(a) Dean Bosh's friend
(b) an artillery officer and pyrotechnical expert
(c) a fellow member of the Essene Brotherhood
(d) the abbot of the chief monastery of the Essene Brotherhood

13. What does Pogossian decide to do when they arrive in Alexandria?
(a) He decides to return home to Turkey
(b) He decides to stay on the ship, working in the engine room
(c) He decides to steal the copy of "pre-sand Egypt"
(d) He decides to become a tour guide along with Gurdjieff

14. What did Bogachevsky counsel men to do in order to live a moral life?
(a) a man should travel the world and observe people
(b) a man should study many subjects and become educated
(c) a man should try to please others
(d) a man should follow his own conscience and not heed others

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gurdjieff sum up the literature of his times?

2. Why did the subject of spiritualism make a strong impression on Gurdjieff?

3. Between what ages did Father Borsh feel females were fully developed?

4. Who are the Yezidis?

5. Gurdjieff intended to write his book in accordance with what counsel for living employed by Mullah Nassr Eddin?

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