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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. Why was the lumber yard that Gurdjieff's father opened a failure?
(a) His father had no business experience and was too honest
(b) A disease attacked the forests in the area
(c) Gurdjieff's father had too many enemies and not enough customers
(d) People were poor and couldn't afford lumber

2. What language did the bards sing when they competed in contests?
(a) Russian
(b) Turko-Russian
(c) Turko-Tartar
(d) Turkish

3. Gurdjieff changed his custom of drinking armagnac from liqueur glasses to drinking from what kind of glass?
(a) wine glasses
(b) tumblers
(c) shot glasses
(d) champagne glasses

4. What had Gurdjieff promised himself to do after completing his first series of writing?
(a) drink all the bottles of Calvados in the wine cellar of the Prieure
(b) go on a vacation to the Black Sea
(c) consult with all his learned tutors
(d) visit his relatives and friends and relax

5. 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 Lost City of Babul"
(b) the legend of "the Secret of the Gobi Desert"
(c) the legend of the "Flood before the Flood"
(d) the legend of "the Creation of the World"

Short Answer Questions

1. What position did Gurdjieff's first tutor hold?

2. In what town did the first of the ashokh contests which Gurdjieff witnessed take place?

3. What did Father Borsh think that the gratification of lust before adulthood would do to a youth?

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

5. What state did Gurdjieff experience, according to Mullah Nassr Eddin's words, after many sleepless nights?

(see the answer key)

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