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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 would Gurdjieff's father do on evenings before Sundays and holidays?
(a) lay out his clothes for Sunday
(b) tell stories to his children
(c) write letters to his friends
(d) go to bed late

2. Why did Gurdjieff go to Alexandropol?
(a) to visit his family
(b) to study with another tutor
(c) to go on a vacation after his first years of study
(d) to earn money where he was known as a good craftsman

3. With whom did Bogachevsky share lodgings?
(a) Nureyev
(b) Ponomarenko
(c) Dean Borsh
(d) Krestovsky

4. Why does Gurdjieff criticize newspaper literary critics?
(a) they can't write well
(b) He is jealoous of them
(c) they earn too much money for the work they do
(d) they fool easily suggestible people and are deceitful

5. Why was the lumber yard that Gurdjieff's father opened a failure?
(a) A disease attacked the forests in the area
(b) His father had no business experience and was too honest
(c) Gurdjieff's father had too many enemies and not enough customers
(d) People were poor and couldn't afford lumber

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Vseslavsky?

2. What did Krestovsky teach Gurdjieff?

3. 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?

4. What was the title of the first book in Gurdjieff's series?

5. According to Father Borsh what two things should a priest be able to do for the members of his flock?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Gurdjieff go to Alexandropol?

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

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

4. When and where did Gurdjieff meet Pogossian?

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

6. What was the story of Gilgamesh?

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

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

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

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

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