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

2. What did Gurdjieff propose to do in his second book, "Meetings with Remarkable Men"?
(a) build up his ego, describing all his accomplishments
(b) write an entertaining book, enjoyable to everyone
(c) create a consciousness devoid of illusions in people like himself
(d) write a sort of travel log of his travels through exotic lands

3. How did the stories Gurdjieff's father told him influence him in his later life?
(a) he told them to his own children
(b) he remembered them when he suffered from insomnia
(c) they were a constant reminder of his father and his father's goodness
(d) they were a spiritualizing factor, enabling him to comprehend the incomprehensible

4. What is the other name Bogachevsky goes by?
(a) Brother Peter
(b) Father Evlissi
(c) Abbot of Kars
(d) Father Essene

5. How did Gurdjieff and Pogossian happen to meet?
(a) .They met at the marketplace in Echmiadzin.
(b) They met at an inn where they both happened to be staying
(c) Gurdjieff was delivering a parcel to him from his parents
(d) They met in a church where there had been a miracle

Short Answer Questions

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

2. On their expedition in search of the school run by the Sarmoung Brotherhood what experience causes Gurdjieff and Pogossian great fear but then hilarious laughter?

3. What kind of education was Father Borsh in favor of having Gurdjieff pursue?

4. What was an ashokh which Gurdjieff's father was?

5. How did Gurdjieff and Pogossian secure passage on a ship to Egypt?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Essene Brotherhood.

2. What was the story of Gilgamesh?

3. Why do Gurdjieff and Pogossian travel to Alexandropol?

4. Why did people consider Father Borsh peculiar?

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

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

7. Why did Gurdjieff and Pogossian become good friends?

8. What is a gornakh?

9. Who were the Imastun brethren?

10. When and where did Gurdjieff meet Pogossian?

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