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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Mr. X or Captain Pogossian.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Pogossian look like?
(a) He was of medium height, dark , with a small moustache.
(b) He was tall, fair-haired with a full beard.
(c) He was small, dark and clean-shaven.
(d) He was fat with a ruddy complexion and wore glasses.

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

3. What did Pogossian do after graduating from the seminary?
(a) He worked with Gurdjieff at the railway station as a locksmith
(b) He left the church and studied languages.
(c) He became a teacher at the seminary.
(d) He married and became a priest with his own parish.

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

5. Between what ages did Father Borsh feel a male was fully developed?
(a) between the ages of nineteen and twenty-two
(b) between the ages of nineteen and twenty-one
(c) between the ages of twenty and twenty-three
(d) between the ages of eighteen and twenty

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the "Sarmoung"?

2. According to Gurdjieff, contemporary literature falls into which three categories?

3. How does Gurdjieff sum up the literature of his times?

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

5. What legend did Gurdjieff's father and Dean Borsh discuss all night while Gurdjieff and his uncle listened to them?

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