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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. Why did the expedition travel towards Bagdad instead of going as previously planned to the Persian Gulf?

2. Where does Gurdjieff meet Professor Skridlov for the second time and what do they do?

3. Upon Yelov's suggestion what scheme did Gurdjieff devise for making a lot of money?

4. What proposal did Prince Lubovedsky make to Gurdjieff and his friends?

5. What happened to Ekim Bey in Suram?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Prince Lubovedsky turn to spiritualism?

2. What brings them together?

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

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

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

6. What does Gurdjieff remember about Yelov?

7. How does Karpenko die?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) What was the former island of Haninn which Gurdjieff's father spoke of? Tell something about it.

2) What was the former Imastun Brotherhood? Describe them and what they did.

3) What were the four commandments Gurdjieff's father considered indispensable to a person from childhood to the age of maturity?

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

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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.

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