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

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

3. What is it impossible to do even if one is an excellent linguist?
(a) think in a foreign language while speaking one's native tongue
(b) dream in a foreign language
(c) speak like a native in a foreign language.
(d) speak more than five languages fluently

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

5. What phenomenon do Bogachevsky and his friends experiment with?
(a) summoning spirits from the dead using a medium
(b) divining people's names by holding their hands
(c) disappearing rabbits
(d) "table turning"--laying hands on a table and asking it questions

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Gurdjieff meet Pogossian and become friends with him?

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

3. How did Gurdjieff's father lose his fortune as the richest cattle owner in Armenia?

4. What was Pogossian bitten by?

5. Where did the second contest that Gurdjieff witnessed take place?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Gurdjieff criticize contemporary people for and why?

3. What was the story of Gilgamesh?

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

5. Describe an ashokh.

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

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

8. Who was Gurdjieff's first tutor and what position did he hold?

9. Describe Bogachevsky.

10. When and where did Gurdjieff meet Pogossian?

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