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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. What phenomenon do Bogachevsky and his friends experiment with?

2. What has the literature of contemporary civilization to give according to Gurdjieff?

3. Besides having an accident with a firearm, what other prediction of the fortuneteller came true about Gurdjieff?

4. What was awakened in Gurdjieff while listening to Bogachevsky and his friends' discussions around the samovar?

5. When did Gurdjieff meet Pogossian and become friends with him?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Gurdjieff and Pogossian travel to Alexandropol?

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

3. Why did people consider Father Borsh peculiar?

4. When and where did Gurdjieff meet Pogossian?

5. Describe Bogachevsky.

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

7. What does Gurdjieff mean by "word prostitution" in his criticism of contemporary literature?

8. Why did Gurdjieff and Pogossian become good friends?

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

10. What was the story of Gilgamesh?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Describe Gurdjieff's theories about translation of languages.

2) Why does Gurdjieff think grammars have harmed contemporary literature?

3) What are some of Gurdjieff's theories about translation of languages and thinking in one language while attempting to speak another?

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

Essay Topic 2

1) Describe the anecdote Gurdjieff tells entitled "The Conversation of the Two Sparrows". What is the lesson contained in the anecdote?

2) What did Gurdjieff think were the shortcomings of the contemporary literature of his day?

3) Recount the story of the family who died from eating poison sausages. Who caused that tragedy and how?

4) Choose one of the above questions and answer it in as much detail as possible.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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