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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. Whom does Gurdjieff meet in a billiard hall in New Bukara and what transpires?

2. How did Yelov view his mother?

3. Whom do Gurdjieff and Skridlov meet in Afridis?

4. Who wound up with the girl, Gurdjieff or Karpenko?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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. Where is Yelov and what is he doing when Gurdjieff meets him?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Describe Gurdjieff's first tutor, Dean Borsh. What was his physical appearance? Why did people consider him odd?

2) List four of the ten principles that Gurdjieff's first tutor, Dean Borsh, believed children should be taught.

3) What does Gurdjieff do because he wasn't able to visit Dean Borsh during the last days before he died or be at the funeral?

4) Choose one of these topics and write about it.

Essay Topic 2

1) Who is Piotr Karpenko? When does Gurdjieff meet him and how do they become close friends?

2) Who is Professor Skridlov? What is he a professor of? What do he and Gurdjieff do together in Egypt?

3) What do Gurdjieff and Skridlov do in order to travel to Kafiristan and Bukara where Euopeans were hated but where they wanted to find out about Islam?

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

Essay Topic 3

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.

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