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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 kind of education was Father Borsh in favor of having Gurdjieff pursue?
(a) a military education
(b) a medical education
(c) a practical education in woodworking
(d) the priesthood

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

3. What was Ani?
(a) the city where Gurdjieff was born
(b) the ancient Armenian capital, 30 miles from Alexandropol.
(c) the city where Pogossian met his future wife.
(d) the city where Alexander the Great was born.

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

5. What was Gurdjieff's father forced to become because of life's circumstances?
(a) a farmer
(b) a fisherman
(c) a store keeper
(d) a professional carpenter

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Bogachevsky counsel men to do in order to live a moral life?

3. How did the stories Gurdjieff's father told him influence him in his later life?

4. Gurdjieff changed his custom of drinking armagnac from liqueur glasses to drinking from what kind of glass?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe an ashokh.

4. According to Gurdjieff into what three categories does contemporary literature fall and how does he describe them?

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

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

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

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

9. What experiment did Bogachevsky and his friends make to prove the validity of spiritualism?

10. Why did Gurdjieff go to Alexandropol?

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