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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. In whose house did Gurdjieff and Pogossian stay in the city of N?
(a) in the house of a Russian prince
(b) in the house of an Armenian farmer
(c) in the house of a Kurdish shepherd
(d) in the house of an Armenian priest

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

3. Why did the subject of spiritualism make a strong impression on Gurdjieff?
(a) because of the recent death of his favorite sister
(b) because his dead sister appeared to him in a dream
(c) because he wanted to believe in immortality
(d) because he wanted to take part in a seance

4. Who was allowed access to Father Borsh's room?
(a) Anyone seeking help or advice
(b) Gurdjieff and Father Borsh's orderly
(c) Gurdjieff and Gurdjieff's father
(d) Any students at the Kars Military Cathedral

5. What legend did Gurdjieff's father and Dean Borsh discuss all night while Gurdjieff and his uncle listened to them?
(a) the legend of "the Secret of the Gobi Desert"
(b) the legend of the "Flood before the Flood"
(c) the legend of "the Creation of the World"
(d) the legend of " The Lost City of Babul"

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who, in Gurdjieff's opinion, invents the grammar of languages?

3. What tendency of his father's nature was defined by Gurdieff as virtuous?

4. In what town did the first of the ashokh contests which Gurdjieff witnessed take place?

5. Which two animals did Gurdjieff feel a man should embody?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Gurdjieff's father do on evenings before Sundays and holidays?

2. When and where did Gurdjieff meet Pogossian?

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

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

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

6. Why did people consider Father Borsh peculiar?

7. Describe an ashokh.

8. What is a gornakh?

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

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

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