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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. Who, in Gurdjieff's opinion, invents the grammar of languages?

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

3. Who was allowed access to Father Borsh's room?

4. How did Gurdjieff view his father?

5. How many books had Gurdjieff first planned to write ?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who were the Imastun brethren?

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

3. When and where did Gurdjieff meet Pogossian?

4. What was Gurdjieff's father's view on the aim of life?

5. Why did people consider Father Borsh peculiar?

6. What was the relationship between Gurdjieff's father and Dean Borsh?

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

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

9. What was the story of Gilgamesh?

10. Describe an ashokh.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) What was the former island of Haninn which Gurdjieff's father spoke of? Tell something about it.

2) What was the former Imastun Brotherhood? Describe them and what they did.

3) What were the four commandments Gurdjieff's father considered indispensable to a person from childhood to the age of maturity?

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

Essay Topic 2

1) A school run by what Brotherhood do Gurdjieff and Pogossian decide to mount an expedition to find? Why?

2) What bites Pogossian, what does Gurdjieff do to save his life and where do they both find shelter?

3) What does Gurdjieff secretly make a copy of in the old Armenian priest's house? Why?

4) Choose one of these topics to write on.

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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