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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 phenomenon do Bogachevsky and his friends experiment with?

2. Why did people think Dean Borsh was peculiar?

3. Who are the Yezidis?

4. What did Dean Borsh teach Gurdjieff?

5. Where did the second contest that Gurdjieff witnessed take place?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is a gornakh?

3. Why did Gurdjieff and Pogossian become good friends?

4. Why do Gurdjieff and Pogossian travel to Alexandropol?

5. Describe the Essene Brotherhood.

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

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

8. Describe an ashokh.

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

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 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 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) What question comes up during the opening dinner for the New York City branch of the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man? How does Gurfjieff answer the question?

2) To whom does Gurdjieff attribute his business acumen and why?

3) How does Gurdjieff lose all the money he amassed for his Institute?

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

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