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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 were the Aisors called?

2. What did Gurdjieff and Yelov have in common?

3. What unique journey do the Seekers of the Truth make at the end of Chapter 7?

4. How did Gurdjieff meet Professor Skridlov?

5. What did Yelov have a great talent for?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Where and when do Gurdjieff and Karpenko meet?

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

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

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

9. What was the main lesson Skridlov and Gurdjieff learned in the Monastery?

10. What is the bond between Gurdjieff and Yelov?

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) 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.

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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