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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 had Gurdjieff's family first intended him to be?
(a) a soldier
(b) a priest
(c) an ashokh or bard
(d) a cattle herder

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

3. What did Pogossian do after graduating from the seminary?
(a) He worked with Gurdjieff at the railway station as a locksmith
(b) He became a teacher at the seminary.
(c) He married and became a priest with his own parish.
(d) He left the church and studied languages.

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

5. Where was Sarkis Pogossian born and of what race was he?
(a) He was Turkish and he was born in Greece.
(b) He was Greek and he was born in Armenia.
(c) He was Armenian and he was born in Transcaucasia.
(d) He was Armenian but he was born in Turkey.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Gurdjieff 's father react when misfortunes befell him?

2. What has the literature of contemporary civilization to give according to Gurdjieff?

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

4. What subjects did Ponomarenko teach Gurdjieff?

5. What does Pogossian decide to do when they arrive in Alexandria?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Gurdjieff and Pogossian become good friends?

3. What was the story of Gilgamesh?

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

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

6. Who were the Imastun brethren?

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

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

9. Why did people consider Father Borsh peculiar?

10. What was Gurdjieff's father's view on the aim of life?

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