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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. Where did Gurdjieff witness his third ashokh contest?
(a) Teheran in Persia
(b) Subatan in the region of Kars
(c) Kabul in the region of Afghanistan
(d) Istanbul in Turkey

2. How did Gurdjieff view his father?
(a) like an older brother who instilled high ideals in him
(b) like a very stern patriarch whom he feared
(c) like a friend who was somewhat beneath him
(d) like a fool whom he had no respect for

3. What was awakened in Gurdjieff while listening to Bogachevsky and his friends' discussions around the samovar?
(a) an interest in abstract questions and spiritualism
(b) a feeling of inferiority when he compared himself with them
(c) an interest in becoming a member of the Essene Brotherhood
(d) an interest in mathematics

4. How does Gurdjieff first meet Dean Borsh?
(a) at a funeral of a family friend
(b) in his father's workshop
(c) after joining the cathedral choir
(d) on a street in Kars, his childhood home town

5. How does Gurdjieff sum up the literature of his times?
(a) "it's quite varied"
(b) "it's trendy"
(c) "it has no soul"
(d) "it's based on sensationalism"

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What had Gurdjieff's family first intended him to be?

3. When was the Essene Brotherhood established?

4. What phenomenon do Bogachevsky and his friends experiment with?

5. Between what ages did Father Borsh feel a male was fully developed?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a gornakh?

2. When and where did Gurdjieff meet Pogossian?

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

4. According to Gurdjieff into what three categories does contemporary literature fall and how does he describe them?

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

6. Why did Gurdjieff and Pogossian become good friends?

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

8. Why did Gurdjieff go to Alexandropol?

9. What important discovery did Gurdjieff and Pogossian make in the rubble of the underground passages of the ancient churches near Alexandropol?

10. What is Gurdjieff's criticism of contemporary journalism?

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