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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Gurdjieff first meet Dean Borsh?
(a) in his father's workshop
(b) at a funeral of a family friend
(c) after joining the cathedral choir
(d) on a street in Kars, his childhood home town

2. On their expedition in search of the school run by the Sarmoung Brotherhood what experience causes Gurdjieff and Pogossian great fear but then hilarious laughter?
(a) two traveling bandits turn out to be friendly clowns
(b) a wide river crossing turns out to be extemely shallow
(c) threatening peasants suddenly start laughing
(d) fierce threatening dogs sit now quiety when they sit down

3. When did Gurdjieff meet Pogossian and become friends with him?
(a) in Paldevan during his vacation
(b) when Pogossian was finishing his seminary studies
(c) in Kars during his childhood
(d) in Baku on a trip

4. What is the other name Bogachevsky goes by?
(a) Brother Peter
(b) Father Evlissi
(c) Abbot of Kars
(d) Father Essene

5. How did Gurdjieff and Pogossian happen to meet?
(a) .They met at the marketplace in Echmiadzin.
(b) They met in a church where there had been a miracle
(c) They met at an inn where they both happened to be staying
(d) Gurdjieff was delivering a parcel to him from his parents

6. How did Gurdjieff and Pogossian secure passage on a ship to Egypt?
(a) The bribed a ship's captain to take them to Egypt.
(b) They sneaked on board a ship destined for Alexandria
(c) They came to the aid of some English sailors in a fight.
(d) They got jobs as crew members on an Egyptian ship.

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

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

9. What did the Yezidis believe?
(a) they are the chosen-ones and have special powers
(b) they will some day take over the world
(c) they cannot leave a circle that is drawn around them
(d) they are suseptible to many diseases

10. How did Gurdjieff's father lose his fortune as the richest cattle owner in Armenia?
(a) He was a bad breeder and couldn't care for his cattle
(b) He lost his cattle gambling
(c) A rival cattle owner stole most of his cattle
(d) a widespread cattle plague

11. Why did the subject of spiritualism make a strong impression on Gurdjieff?
(a) because of the recent death of his favorite sister
(b) because his dead sister appeared to him in a dream
(c) because he wanted to take part in a seance
(d) because he wanted to believe in immortality

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

13. Who was allowed access to Father Borsh's room?
(a) Any students at the Kars Military Cathedral
(b) Gurdjieff and Father Borsh's orderly
(c) Gurdjieff and Gurdjieff's father
(d) Anyone seeking help or advice

14. According to Gurdjieff, contemporary literature falls into which three categories?
(a) non-fiction, poetry and journalism
(b) the scientific field, narratives (novels) and descriptions
(c) science books, magazines and newspapers
(d) non-fiction, newspapers and travel books

15. 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 Lost City of Babul"
(c) the legend of "the Creation of the World"
(d) the legend of the "Flood before the Flood"

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Gurdjieff 's father react when misfortunes befell him?

2. What does Pogossian decide to do when they arrive in Alexandria?

3. What did Gurdjieff's aunt warn him about?

4. Where did Captain Pogossian spend his childhood?

5. What did Gurdjieff and Pogossian pursue together?

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