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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Bogachevsy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would Gurdjieff's father do on evenings before Sundays and holidays?
(a) lay out his clothes for Sunday
(b) write letters to his friends
(c) go to bed late
(d) tell stories to his children

2. When did Gurdjieff meet Bogachevsky?
(a) when Gurdjieff traveled to Russia
(b) when Bogachevsky was ill
(c) when Bogachevsky was young and about to become a priest
(d) when Bogachevsky was old and intending to retire

3. What kind of education was Father Borsh in favor of having Gurdjieff pursue?
(a) the priesthood
(b) a medical education
(c) a practical education in woodworking
(d) a military education

4. What state did Gurdjieff experience, according to Mullah Nassr Eddin's words, after many sleepless nights?
(a) "to feel oneself run over by a herd of camels"
(b) "to feel like death warmed over"
(c) "to feel oneself tired to the bone"
(d) "to feel oneself plunged in galoshes to the eyebrows"

5. What did Krestovsky teach Gurdjieff?
(a) history and geography
(b) anatomy and psychology
(c) Scripture and Russian
(d) mathematics and physiology

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was allowed access to Father Borsh's room?

2. Who was Kouzmin?

3. Why was the lumber yard that Gurdjieff's father opened a failure?

4. What was an ashokh which Gurdjieff's father was?

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

(see the answer key)

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