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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. Where is the chief monastery of the Essene Brotherhood situated?

2. What position did Gurdjieff's first tutor hold?

3. How did Gurdjieff and Pogossian secure passage on a ship to Egypt?

4. What does Pogossian decide to do when they arrive in Alexandria?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happened two years later when Pogossian returned to Kars where was was to be ordained?

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

5. What was the story of Gilgamesh?

6. What does Gurdjieff criticize contemporary people for and why?

7. What are Gurdjiefff's thoughts on the grammars of different languages, who composes them and alters them?

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

9. What did Father Borsh do sometimes for a rest?

10. Why do Gurdjieff and Pogossian travel to Alexandropol?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) What are some of the devices the Seeker of the Truth comes up with in order to cross the Gobi desert?

2) Where does Soloviev die and how?

3) Who is Ekim Bey, where does Gurdjieff meet him?

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

Essay Topic 2

1) Gurdjieff's father was an ashokh. Describe what an ashokh did and in what language?

2) What did Gurdjieff's father do on evenings before Sundays and holidays? Why was what he did a big influence on Gurdjieff in his later life?

3) What legend Dean Korsh and Gurdjieff's father discuss which could be compared to the story of Noah and the ark? Tell something about it.

4) Choose one of the above topics and write about it.

Essay Topic 3

1) Describe Gurdjieff's first tutor, Dean Borsh. What was his physical appearance? Why did people consider him odd?

2) List four of the ten principles that Gurdjieff's first tutor, Dean Borsh, believed children should be taught.

3) What does Gurdjieff do because he wasn't able to visit Dean Borsh during the last days before he died or be at the funeral?

4) Choose one of these topics and write about it.

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