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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. For whom is Gurdjieff working when he first meets Prince Ludbovedsky?

2. How and where did Karpenko meet an untimely death?

3. How does Skirdlov describe himself as he sits on mountaintop at the end of Chapter 10?

4. Whom did Gurdjieff and his friends go out of the way to visit and why?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Gurdjieff do in Rome to make money?

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

5. What degree does Karpenko with?

6. Where and when do Gurdjieff and Karpenko meet?

7. Whom does Gurdjieff promise the Prince to escort from Constantinople to Russia and what does he think of that person when he meets her?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Describe prince Lubovedsky, What event makes him interested in spiritualism?

2) Where does Gurdjieff meet prince Lubovedsky? What possession do they have in common? Are they the same age? If not, is the prince older or younger and by how many years?

3) Who is Vitvitskaia? Describe her story briefly. What does prince Lubovedsky ask Gurdjieff to do for Vitvitskaia?

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

Essay Topic 2

1) Gurdjieff's father was an ashokh. Describe what an ashokh did and in what language?

2) What did Gurdjieff's father do on evenings before Sundays and holidays? Why was what he did a big influence on Gurdjieff in his later life?

3) What legend Dean Korsh and Gurdjieff's father discuss which could be compared to the story of Noah and the ark? Tell something about it.

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

Essay Topic 3

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.

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