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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 is it impossible to do even if one is an excellent linguist?
(a) dream in a foreign language
(b) speak more than five languages fluently
(c) think in a foreign language while speaking one's native tongue
(d) speak like a native in a foreign language.

2. How many books had Gurdjieff first planned to write ?
(a) thirty-two
(b) thirty-one
(c) thirty-six
(d) thirty-four

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

4. When was the Essene Brotherhood established?
(a) twelve hundred years before the birth of Christ
(b) during Christ's lifetime
(c) four hundred years before the birth of Christ
(d) a thousand years before the birth of Christ

5. How old was Dean Borsh when he first taught Gurdjieff and visited his father to discuss religious and historical subjects?
(a) seventy-five
(b) sixty-eight
(c) seventy-two
(d) seventy

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the other name Bogachevsky goes by?

3. What did the Imastun brethren study?

4. How did Gurdjieff and Pogossian happen to meet?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Father Borsh.

2. According to Gurdjieff into what three categories does contemporary literature fall and how does he describe them?

3. Describe Bogachevsky.

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

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

6. Why did Gurdjieff and Pogossian become good friends?

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

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

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

10. Why did Gurdjieff go to Alexandropol?

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