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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 Father Borsh think that the gratification of lust before adulthood would do to a youth?
(a) make a man of him
(b) drive him insane
(c) stunt his growth
(d) turn him into a monstrosity

2. What was the title of the first book in Gurdjieff's series?
(a) " My Father's Tales to Me"
(b) "Ancient Wisdom of the East"
(c) " My Travels throughout Turkey, Egypt and the Far East"
(d) "Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson"

3. In what town did the first of the ashokh contests which Gurdjieff witnessed take place?
(a) Tabul in Turkey
(b) Viestock in Persia
(c) Istanbul in Turkey
(d) Van in Turkey

4. What did Gurdjieff's aunt warn him about?
(a) to be faithful to his father's teachings
(b) not to marry too young
(c) to study hard so that he could earn a good living
(d) to take care not to have an accident with a firearm

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What legend did Gurdjieff's father and Dean Borsh discuss all night while Gurdjieff and his uncle listened to them?

2. What was Pogossian bitten by?

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

4. What was awakened in Gurdjieff while listening to Bogachevsky and his friends' discussions around the samovar?

5. What had Gurdjieff's family first intended him to be?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happened two years later when Pogossian returned to Kars where was was to be ordained?

3. What was the story of Gilgamesh?

4. What is a gornakh?

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

6. Why did Gurdjieff and Pogossian become good friends?

7. What was the relationship between Gurdjieff's father and Dean Borsh?

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

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

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

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