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

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

3. What school was Ekim Bey attending when Gurdjieff met him?

4. Gurjieff didn't see Karpenko after the incident with the girl but when would he hear from him?

5. What had Soloviev been at one time?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the bond between Gurdjieff and Yelov?

6. What do Skridlov and Gurdjieff disguise themselves as and how?

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

8. What does Gurdjieff remember about Yelov?

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

10. What degree does Karpenko with?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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