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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 do Gurdjieff and Soloviev travel together?

2. Whom did Gurdjieff and his friends go out of the way to visit and why?

3. What does Vitvitskaia do while she stay with Prince Lubovedsky's sister?

4. How and where did Karpenko meet an untimely death?

5. What was Ekim Bey interested in?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Skridlov and Gurdjieff disguise themselves as and how?

2. Where does Ekim Bey show up four years after he first meets Gurdjieff and what happens there?

3. How does Karpenko die?

4. What does Ekim Bey later study that brings in money?

5. When does Gurdjieff meet Skridlov for the second time and what happens?

6. Where does Gurdjieff meet the Prince again after two years of thinking him dead?

7. What degree does Karpenko with?

8. Why was Ekim Bey's father indebted to Gurdjieff?

9. Where is Yelov and what is he doing when Gurdjieff meets him?

10. Where does Gurdjieff meet Professor Skridlov and under what circumstances?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Describe the situation of the European painter who was so highly praised by a German newspaper. Was he really a great painter? What happened in the story?

2) How did a literary critic cause the suicide of a young couple?

3) Describe the music critic Gurdjieff judges as a phony in the book. Why does Gurdjieff feel the man has no right to be a music critic?

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

Essay Topic 2

1) Besides having Bogachevsky ( Father Evlissi) as a tutor how else does Gurdjieff benefit from his acquaintance with him?

2) What is "table turning" ? Describe it in as much detail as possible. Did Dean Borsh believe in it?

3) What does Gurdjieff's aunt warn him about? Were her warnings justified?

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

Essay Topic 3

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.

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