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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 was Gurdjieff's youngest niece supposed to do for him?

2. What did the Imastun brethren study?

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

4. When was the Essene Brotherhood established?

5. Why did Gurdjieff go to Alexandropol?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who was Gurdjieff's first tutor and what position did he hold?

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

4. Describe Bogachevsky.

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

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

7. Describe Father Borsh.

8. Why did Gurdjieff go to Alexandropol?

9. Why did people consider Father Borsh peculiar?

10. Why do Gurdjieff and Pogossian travel to Alexandropol?

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) 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 3

1) Gurdjieff's father was an ashokh. Describe what an ashokh did and in what language?

2) What did Gurdjieff's father do on evenings before Sundays and holidays? Why was what he did a big influence on Gurdjieff in his later life?

3) What legend Dean Korsh and Gurdjieff's father discuss which could be compared to the story of Noah and the ark? Tell something about it.

4) Choose one of the above topics and write about it.

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