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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 purpose in traveling to Echmiadzin?

2. What did the Yezidis believe?

3. What did Father Borsh look like?

4. What did the Imastun brethren study?

5. What phenomenon do Bogachevsky and his friends experiment with?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Gurdjieff happen to see the famous ashokhs of those days?

3. What experiment did Bogachevsky and his friends make to prove the validity of spiritualism?

4. Describe Father Borsh.

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

6. What does Gurdjieff criticize contemporary people for and why?

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

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

9. On their expedition to find the Sarmoung Brotherhood what other precious treasure does Gurdjieff find?

10. What is Gurdjieff's criticism of contemporary journalism?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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) Why was Gurdjieff's father considered very rich and how did he lose his fortune?

2) What did Gurdjieff's father take up as a profession after he was ruined? Why wasn't he successful at it?

3) Why did Gurdjieff's family move to Kars?

4) Choose one of these topics to write on.

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