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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

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. What did Gurdjieff propose to do in his second book, "Meetings with Remarkable Men"?

4. Why does Gurdjieff criticize newspaper literary critics?

5. According to Gurdjieff, contemporary literature falls into which three categories?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who were the Imastun brethren?

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

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

5. When and where did Gurdjieff meet Pogossian?

6. Why did people consider Father Borsh peculiar?

7. Describe the Essene Brotherhood.

8. Describe Father Borsh.

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

10. Describe an ashokh.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Who is Philos? Describe him? What is his relation to Gurdjieff? What are his talents?

2) Who is Soloviev? Describe him and tell a little of his history.

3) How does one find one's way through Turkestan since maps are almost useless?

4) Choose one of the three topics to write on.

Essay Topic 2

1) Describe Gurdjieff's first tutor, Dean Borsh. What was his physical appearance? Why did people consider him odd?

2) List four of the ten principles that Gurdjieff's first tutor, Dean Borsh, believed children should be taught.

3) What does Gurdjieff do because he wasn't able to visit Dean Borsh during the last days before he died or be at the funeral?

4) Choose one of these topics and write about it.

Essay Topic 3

1) Who is Piotr Karpenko? When does Gurdjieff meet him and how do they become close friends?

2) Who is Professor Skridlov? What is he a professor of? What do he and Gurdjieff do together in Egypt?

3) What do Gurdjieff and Skridlov do in order to travel to Kafiristan and Bukara where Euopeans were hated but where they wanted to find out about Islam?

4) Choose one of the three topics to write on.

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