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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. How does Gurdjieff first meet Dean Borsh?

2. What was Gurdjieff's purpose in traveling to Echmiadzin?

3. How does Gurdjieff sum up the literature of his times?

4. Where is the chief monastery of the Essene Brotherhood situated?

5. Between what ages did Father Borsh feel females were fully developed?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Gurdjieff mean by "word prostitution" in his criticism of contemporary literature?

6. Why did people consider Father Borsh peculiar?

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

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

9. Why did Gurdjieff and Pogossian become good friends?

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) Discuss why Gurdjieff thought newspaper critics were unreliable.

2) Which two animals does Gurdjieff think every man and woman should embody and why?

3) What are the three types of modern literature Gurdjieff describes? How does he criticize them?

4) Choose one of the three topics and write on it.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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