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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. When did Gurdjieff meet Karpenko?

2. What does Vitvitskaia do while she stay with Prince Lubovedsky's sister?

3. Where does Gurdjieff sell paper flowers and what else does he sell there?

4. How did the Aisors make money?

5. Whom do Gurdjieff and Skridlov meet in Afridis?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the bond between Gurdjieff and Yelov?

2. From what people is Yelov descended and what characterizes these people?

3. Where does Gurdjieff meet Prince Lubovedsky and what do they have in common?

4. Where does Gurdjieff meet Professor Skridlov and under what circumstances?

5. What was the main lesson Skridlov and Gurdjieff learned in the Monastery?

6. Whom do Gurdjieff and his friends go out of their way to see on their journey?

7. How does Gurdjieff corner the local market in plaster casts?

8. Where does Ekim Bey show up four years after he first meets Gurdjieff and what happens there?

9. Why was Ekim Bey's father indebted to Gurdjieff?

10. Where does Gurdjieff meet Ekim Bey and under what circumstances?

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) 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) Who is Abram Yelov, what does he do and where does Gurdjieff meet him? What do they have in common?

2) Describe Abram Yelov and the Aisor people he comes from.

3) What scheme for making money does Gurdjieff come up with in Tiflis? Do you think it was moral of Gurdjieff to carry out that scheme for making money?

4) Choose one of the above topics to write on.

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