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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Gurdjieff changed his custom of drinking armagnac from liqueur glasses to drinking from what kind of glass?
(a) champagne glasses
(b) tumblers
(c) shot glasses
(d) wine glasses

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

3. According to Father Borsh what two things should a priest be able to do for the members of his flock?
(a) care for their souls and cure their physical diseases
(b) give them Holy Communion and perform marriages etc.
(c) be an example for them of holiness and teach Scripture
(d) teach them Scripture and pray for them

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

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

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

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

8. When did Gurdjieff meet Bogachevsky?
(a) when Bogachevsky was old and intending to retire
(b) when Bogachevsky was ill
(c) when Gurdjieff traveled to Russia
(d) when Bogachevsky was young and about to become a priest

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

10. In which towns did Gurdjieff's family live during his childhood?
(a) Alexandropol and Kars
(b) Baku and Van
(c) Kabul and Baku
(d) Karabakh and Alexandropol

11. Why was the lumber yard that Gurdjieff's father opened a failure?
(a) People were poor and couldn't afford lumber
(b) A disease attacked the forests in the area
(c) Gurdjieff's father had too many enemies and not enough customers
(d) His father had no business experience and was too honest

12. What was Pogossian bitten by?
(a) a big yellow phalanga, a kind of tarantula
(b) a viper
(c) a malaria mosquito
(d) a Kurd sheep dog

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

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

15. 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 eighteen and twenty
(c) between the ages of nineteen and twenty-two
(d) between the ages of nineteen and twenty-one

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the anecdote Gurdjieff uses to show the inferiority of modern life to ancient wisdom showing that modern life and literature are poison to the human race.

2. Why did people think Dean Borsh was peculiar?

3. Why did Gurdjieff go to Alexandropol?

4. What position did Gurdjieff's first tutor hold?

5. What was Ani?

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