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

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

3. Where is the chief monastery of the Essene Brotherhood situated?
(a) not far from the shores of the Dead Sea
(b) in Nazareth
(c) near the sea of Galilee
(d) near Jerusalem

4. What treasure did Gurdjieff secretly get from the Armenian priest?
(a) an ancient map of Armenian treasure caves
(b) a copy he makes from an ancient map of "pre-sand Egypt"
(c) an ancient parchment with esoteric secrets
(d) a copy of an ancient Armenian parchment

5. Why did the subject of spiritualism make a strong impression on Gurdjieff?
(a) because he wanted to take part in a seance
(b) because of the recent death of his favorite sister
(c) because he wanted to believe in immortality
(d) because his dead sister appeared to him in a dream

Short Answer Questions

1. In which towns did Gurdjieff's family live during his childhood?

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

3. What subjects did Ponomarenko teach Gurdjieff?

4. What was Father Borsh's view about a youth before he attained adulthood?

5. How did Gurdjieff view his father?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Father Borsh devote his spare time to?

2. What important discovery did Gurdjieff and Pogossian make in the rubble of the underground passages of the ancient churches near Alexandropol?

3. What was the relationship between Gurdjieff's father and Dean Borsh?

4. Which two animals does Gurdjieff think each man should embody and why?

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

6. Who was Gurdjieff's first tutor and what position did he hold?

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

8. Why did people consider Father Borsh peculiar?

9. Why did Gurdjieff go to Alexandropol?

10. When and where did Gurdjieff meet Pogossian?

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