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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 religion do Gurdjieff and Skridlov want to find out about?

2. How did the Aisors make money?

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

4. Whom does Skridlov visit in Russia?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Prince Lubovedsky turn to spiritualism?

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

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

4. What is the bond between Gurdjieff and Yelov?

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

6. What degree does Karpenko with?

7. What does Vitvitskaia do while she is living with the Prince's sister?

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

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

10. What do Skridlov and Gurdjieff disguise themselves as and how?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) How does Gurdjieff make money in Rome? What does he build to embellish his small business?

2) What does Vitvitskaia find she has an interest in and a talent for when she is living with prince Lubovedsky's sister? What experiments does she try?

3) How does Gurdjieff change his opinion of Vitivitskaia? Do you think the prince has more compassion and intuition than Gurdjieff because of immediate compassion and non-judgment of Vitvitskaia?

4) Choose one of the three topics and write about 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 anecdote Gurdjieff tells entitled "The Conversation of the Two Sparrows". What is the lesson contained in the anecdote?

2) What did Gurdjieff think were the shortcomings of the contemporary literature of his day?

3) Recount the story of the family who died from eating poison sausages. Who caused that tragedy and how?

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

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