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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 Gurdjieff and Pogossian pursue together?
(a) They pursued a career in agriculture.
(b) They decided to pursue medical careers together.
(c) They studied the Scriptures together.
(d) They became interested in ancient Armenian books.

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

3. Who, in Gurdjieff's opinion, invents the grammar of languages?
(a) learned, well-educated grammarians
(b) linguists
(c) people who are on a lower level than ordinary simple people
(d) university professors

4. What did the Yezidis believe?
(a) they will some day take over the world
(b) they are the chosen-ones and have special powers
(c) they are suseptible to many diseases
(d) they cannot leave a circle that is drawn around them

5. When was the Essene Brotherhood established?
(a) during Christ's lifetime
(b) twelve hundred years before the birth of Christ
(c) four hundred years before the birth of Christ
(d) a thousand years before the birth of Christ

Short Answer Questions

1. What treasure did Gurdjieff secretly get from the Armenian priest?

2. What was Gurdjieff's father forced to become because of life's circumstances?

3. Gurdjieff read books on various subjects written in what languages?

4. What was the "Sarmoung"?

5. How old was Dean Borsh when he first taught Gurdjieff and visited his father to discuss religious and historical subjects?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a gornakh?

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

3. Describe Father Borsh.

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

5. Why did people consider Father Borsh peculiar?

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

7. Which two animals does Gurdjieff think each man should embody and why?

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

9. Describe Bogachevsky.

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

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