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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 happened to Ekim Bey in Suram?

2. What did Gurdjieff and Karpenko decide to do in order to settle their dispute over the girl?

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

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

5. What was Yelov's physical appearance?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Karpenko die?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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) Describe Gurdjieff's theories about translation of languages.

2) Why does Gurdjieff think grammars have harmed contemporary literature?

3) What are some of Gurdjieff's theories about translation of languages and thinking in one language while attempting to speak another?

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

Essay Topic 2

1) Who is Pogossian? How and where does Gurdjieff meet him? What do they have in common?

2) What does Pogossian choose to do instead of entering the priesthood?

3) What do Gurdjieff and Pogossian find among the ancient Armenian ruins near Alexandropol?

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

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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