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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 did Pogossian look like?

2. Why did the subject of spiritualism make a strong impression on Gurdjieff?

3. How did Gurdjieff and Pogossian secure passage on a ship to Egypt?

4. What, in Gurdjieff's opinion, has harmed contemporary literature?

5. In whose house did Gurdjieff and Pogossian stay in the city of N?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Bogachevsky.

2. Describe the Essene Brotherhood.

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

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

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

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

7. Why did people consider Father Borsh peculiar?

8. Why do Gurdjieff and Pogossian travel to Alexandropol?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Who is Pogossian? How and where does Gurdjieff meet him? What do they have in common?

2) What does Pogossian choose to do instead of entering the priesthood?

3) What do Gurdjieff and Pogossian find among the ancient Armenian ruins near Alexandropol?

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

Essay Topic 2

1) Describe the anecdote Gurdjieff tells entitled "The Conversation of the Two Sparrows". What is the lesson contained in the anecdote?

2) What did Gurdjieff think were the shortcomings of the contemporary literature of his day?

3) Recount the story of the family who died from eating poison sausages. Who caused that tragedy and how?

4) Choose one of the above questions and answer it in as much detail as possible.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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