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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. What legend did Gurdjieff's father and Dean Borsh discuss all night while Gurdjieff and his uncle listened to them?
2. Which two animals did Gurdjieff feel a man should embody?
3. What had Gurdjieff promised himself to do after completing his first series of writing?
4. How did Gurdjieff and Pogossian happen to meet?
5. What is the title of the anecdote Gurdjieff uses to show the inferiority of modern life to ancient wisdom showing that modern life and literature are poison to the human race.
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Gurdjieff happen to see the famous ashokhs of those days?
2. What was the relationship between Gurdjieff's father and Dean Borsh?
3. Who were the Imastun brethren?
4. What did Father Borsh do sometimes for a rest?
5. Describe an ashokh.
6. What is Gurdjieff's criticism of contemporary journalism?
7. Describe the Essene Brotherhood.
8. Who was Gurdjieff's first tutor and what position did he hold?
9. What experiment did Bogachevsky and his friends make to prove the validity of spiritualism?
10. On their expedition to find the Sarmoung Brotherhood what other precious treasure does Gurdjieff find?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
1) Describe the situation of the European painter who was so highly praised by a German newspaper. Was he really a great painter? What happened in the story?
2) How did a literary critic cause the suicide of a young couple?
3) Describe the music critic Gurdjieff judges as a phony in the book. Why does Gurdjieff feel the man has no right to be a music critic?
4) Choose one of the three questions and answer in as much detail as possible.
Essay Topic 2
1) How do Gurdjieff and Pogossian get passage on a ship to Egypt from the town of Smyrna (modern Izamr in Turkey)?
2) What does Pogossian decide to do when he and Gurdjieff arrive in the port of Alexandria, Egypt?
3) What does Gurdjieff decide to do in Egypt? What two men who become important in his life does he meet in Cairo? Under what circumstances?
4) Write on one of the three topics.
Essay Topic 3
1) Describe prince Lubovedsky, What event makes him interested in spiritualism?
2) Where does Gurdjieff meet prince Lubovedsky? What possession do they have in common? Are they the same age? If not, is the prince older or younger and by how many years?
3) Who is Vitvitskaia? Describe her story briefly. What does prince Lubovedsky ask Gurdjieff to do for Vitvitskaia?
4) Choose one of the three topics and write about it.
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