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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 proposal did Prince Lubovedsky make to Gurdjieff and his friends?

2. What did Gurdjieff learn from Father Giovanni?

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

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

5. How did Gurdjieff meet Professor Skridlov?

Short Essay Questions

1. What brings them together?

2. When does Gurdjieff meet Skridlov for the second time and what happens?

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

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

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

6. How does Gurdjieff corner the local market in plaster casts?

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

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

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

10. How does Karpenko die?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

1) Describe the anecdote Gurdjieff tells entitled "The Conversation of the Two Sparrows". What is the lesson contained in the anecdote?

2) What did Gurdjieff think were the shortcomings of the contemporary literature of his day?

3) Recount the story of the family who died from eating poison sausages. Who caused that tragedy and how?

4) Choose one of the above questions and answer it in as much detail as possible.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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