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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, My First Tutor.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What position did Gurdjieff's first tutor hold?
(a) He was bishop of the Kars Cathedral
(b) He was the dean of a university
(c) He was dean of the Kars Military Cathedral
(d) He was a priest in Gurdjieff's church

2. How did Gurdjieff 's father react when misfortunes befell him?
(a) He had an inner calm and detachment
(b) He wept and wailed
(c) He sought comfort from his friends and family
(d) He cursed God and his fate

3. What legend did Gurdjieff's father and Dean Borsh discuss all night while Gurdjieff and his uncle listened to them?
(a) the legend of "the Creation of the World"
(b) the legend of "the Secret of the Gobi Desert"
(c) the legend of " The Lost City of Babul"
(d) the legend of the "Flood before the Flood"

4. What did Gurdjieff propose to do in his second book, "Meetings with Remarkable Men"?
(a) write an entertaining book, enjoyable to everyone
(b) create a consciousness devoid of illusions in people like himself
(c) write a sort of travel log of his travels through exotic lands
(d) build up his ego, describing all his accomplishments

5. What has the literature of contemporary civilization to give according to Gurdjieff?
(a) the development of "an illusory view of life"
(b) the development of "superficiality in everyday life"
(c) the development of "word prostitution"
(d) the development of "lies"

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Gurdjieff criticize newspaper literary critics?

2. How did the stories Gurdjieff's father told him influence him in his later life?

3. Gurdjieff changed his custom of drinking armagnac from liqueur glasses to drinking from what kind of glass?

4. What is it impossible to do even if one is an excellent linguist?

5. Which two animals did Gurdjieff feel a man should embody?

(see the answer key)

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