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

2. What did Krestovsky teach Gurdjieff?
(a) Scripture and Russian
(b) history and geography
(c) anatomy and psychology
(d) mathematics and physiology

3. 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 Creation of the World"
(c) the legend of the "Flood before the Flood"
(d) the legend of " The Lost City of Babul"

4. What has the literature of contemporary civilization to give according to Gurdjieff?
(a) the development of "superficiality in everyday life"
(b) the development of "an illusory view of life"
(c) the development of "lies"
(d) the development of "word prostitution"

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Besides having an accident with a firearm, what other prediction of the fortuneteller came true about Gurdjieff?

3. Between what ages did Father Borsh feel females were fully developed?

4. Who was Kouzmin?

5. Where did Captain Pogossian spend his childhood?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Gurdjieff and Pogossian become good friends?

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

3. What is a gornakh?

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

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

6. Describe the Essene Brotherhood.

7. Describe an ashokh.

8. What are Gurdjiefff's thoughts on the grammars of different languages, who composes them and alters them?

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

10. Why did people consider Father Borsh peculiar?

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