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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. How did Yelov view his mother?

2. How was Yelov considered by his family?

3. How did Gurdjieff meet Abram Yelov?

4. How old was the girl whom Gurdjieff and Karpenko fell in love with?

5. Whom does Gurdjieff meet in a billiard hall in New Bukara and what transpires?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was the main lesson Skridlov and Gurdjieff learned in the Monastery?

3. Where does Gurdjieff meet Ekim Bey and under what circumstances?

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

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

6. What degree does Karpenko with?

7. What does Gurdjieff remember about Yelov?

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

9. Whom do Gurdjieff and his friends go out of their way to see on their journey?

10. From what people is Yelov descended and what characterizes these people?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) How does Gurdjieff make money in Rome? What does he build to embellish his small business?

2) What does Vitvitskaia find she has an interest in and a talent for when she is living with prince Lubovedsky's sister? What experiments does she try?

3) How does Gurdjieff change his opinion of Vitivitskaia? Do you think the prince has more compassion and intuition than Gurdjieff because of immediate compassion and non-judgment of Vitvitskaia?

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

Essay Topic 2

1) Why was Gurdjieff's father considered very rich and how did he lose his fortune?

2) What did Gurdjieff's father take up as a profession after he was ruined? Why wasn't he successful at it?

3) Why did Gurdjieff's family move to Kars?

4) Choose one of these topics to write on.

Essay Topic 3

1) A school run by what Brotherhood do Gurdjieff and Pogossian decide to mount an expedition to find? Why?

2) What bites Pogossian, what does Gurdjieff do to save his life and where do they both find shelter?

3) What does Gurdjieff secretly make a copy of in the old Armenian priest's house? Why?

4) Choose one of these topics to write on.

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