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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. Where does Prince Lubovedsky's search take him first?

2. Why did Soloviev leave his home town when he was in school?

3. How old was the girl whom Gurdjieff and Karpenko fell in love with?

4. Where do Gurdjieff and Ekim Bey first meet?

5. What did Ekim Bey and Gurdjieff do when they reached Old Tashkent?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What do Gurdjieff and his friends decide to do together?

4. Where does Gurdjieff meet the Prince again after two years of thinking him dead?

5. What does Ekim Bey later study that brings in money?

6. What brings them together?

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

8. What does Yelov comment on that gives Gurdjieff an idea for making more money.

9. What is the bond between Gurdjieff and Yelov?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

1) Besides having Bogachevsky ( Father Evlissi) as a tutor how else does Gurdjieff benefit from his acquaintance with him?

2) What is "table turning" ? Describe it in as much detail as possible. Did Dean Borsh believe in it?

3) What does Gurdjieff's aunt warn him about? Were her warnings justified?

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

Essay Topic 3

1) Describe the situation of the European painter who was so highly praised by a German newspaper. Was he really a great painter? What happened in the story?

2) How did a literary critic cause the suicide of a young couple?

3) Describe the music critic Gurdjieff judges as a phony in the book. Why does Gurdjieff feel the man has no right to be a music critic?

4) Choose one of the three questions and answer in as much detail as possible.

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