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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the second contest that Gurdjieff witnessed take place?
(a) Istanbul in Turkey
(b) Bagdad
(c) Baku in Turkey
(d) Karabakh in Azerbaijan

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

3. What state did Gurdjieff experience, according to Mullah Nassr Eddin's words, after many sleepless nights?
(a) "to feel like death warmed over"
(b) "to feel oneself tired to the bone"
(c) "to feel oneself run over by a herd of camels"
(d) "to feel oneself plunged in galoshes to the eyebrows"

4. What did Dean Borsh teach Gurdjieff?
(a) Scripture and other subjects
(b) geography and other subjects
(c) mathematics and other subjects
(d) history and other subjects

5. What did Pogossian do after graduating from the seminary?
(a) He married and became a priest with his own parish.
(b) He left the church and studied languages.
(c) He worked with Gurdjieff at the railway station as a locksmith
(d) He became a teacher at the seminary.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Father Borsh's view about a youth before he attained adulthood?

2. Why did Gurdjieff go to Alexandropol?

3. What would Gurdjieff's father do on evenings before Sundays and holidays?

4. What did the Yezidis believe?

5. In which towns did Gurdjieff's family live during his childhood?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe an ashokh.

2. What did Father Borsh do sometimes for a rest?

3. What did Father Borsh, Gurdjieff's first tutor, think of the experiment in spiritualism using the table?

4. When and where did Gurdjieff meet Pogossian?

5. What did Father Borsh devote his spare time to?

6. On their expedition to find the Sarmoung Brotherhood what other precious treasure does Gurdjieff find?

7. What does Gurdjieff mean by "word prostitution" in his criticism of contemporary literature?

8. What is Gurdjieff's criticism of contemporary journalism?

9. Why did Gurdjieff and Pogossian become good friends?

10. How did Gurdjieff happen to see the famous ashokhs of those days?

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