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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. On their expedition in search of the school run by the Sarmoung Brotherhood what experience causes Gurdjieff and Pogossian great fear but then hilarious laughter?

2. How did Gurdjieff and Pogossian happen to meet?

3. When was the Essene Brotherhood established?

4. What was Gurdjieff's father forced to become because of life's circumstances?

5. What did Pogossian look like?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe Father Borsh.

5. Why did Gurdjieff go to Alexandropol?

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

7. What did Gurdjieff's father do on evenings before Sundays and holidays?

8. Why do Gurdjieff and Pogossian travel to Alexandropol?

9. Why did people consider Father Borsh peculiar?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Describe Abram Yelov: his physical appearance, his peculiarities and his relationship with his parents and friends.

2) What eventually happens to Yelov? How does he become wealthy? How does he lose his fortune? Where does he finally settle?

3) What did Abram Yelov's father do for a living? What did his mother do?

4) Choose one of the three topics and write on it.

Essay Topic 2

1) Discuss why Gurdjieff thought newspaper critics were unreliable.

2) Which two animals does Gurdjieff think every man and woman should embody and why?

3) What are the three types of modern literature Gurdjieff describes? How does he criticize them?

4) Choose one of the three topics and write on it.

Essay Topic 3

1) Who is Philos? Describe him? What is his relation to Gurdjieff? What are his talents?

2) Who is Soloviev? Describe him and tell a little of his history.

3) How does one find one's way through Turkestan since maps are almost useless?

4) Choose one of the three topics to write on.

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