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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the title of the first book in Gurdjieff's series?
(a) "Ancient Wisdom of the East"
(b) " My Father's Tales to Me"
(c) "Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson"
(d) " My Travels throughout Turkey, Egypt and the Far East"

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

3. What did Dean Borsh teach Gurdjieff?
(a) history and other subjects
(b) Scripture and other subjects
(c) mathematics and other subjects
(d) geography and other subjects

4. What was the title of the introduction Gurdjieff had originally planned for the thirtieth book?
(a) " The Meaning of Life as I Discovered It"
(b) "Why I Became a Writer"
(c) " A New World Devoid of Illusions"
(d) "Why I Am Against Contemporary Literature"

5. Who, in Gurdjieff's opinion, invents the grammar of languages?
(a) university professors
(b) learned, well-educated grammarians
(c) linguists
(d) people who are on a lower level than ordinary simple people

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did Bogachevsky share lodgings?

2. What phenomenon do Bogachevsky and his friends experiment with?

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

4. How many books had Gurdjieff first planned to write ?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What experiment did Bogachevsky and his friends make to prove the validity of spiritualism?

2. Why did people consider Father Borsh peculiar?

3. Who were the Imastun brethren?

4. Why did Gurdjieff and Pogossian become good friends?

5. What did Father Borsh, Gurdjieff's first tutor, think of the experiment in spiritualism using the table?

6. What is Gurdjieff's criticism of contemporary journalism?

7. What is a gornakh?

8. What was Gurdjieff's father's view on the aim of life?

9. Describe Father Borsh.

10. What was the story of Gilgamesh?

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