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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Prince Yuri Lubovedsky.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Between what ages did Father Borsh feel females were fully developed?
(a) between the ages of fifteen and twenty-one
(b) between the ages of sixteen and twenty
(c) between the ages of fifteen and nineteen
(d) between the ages of seventeen and twenty-one

2. How did the stories Gurdjieff's father told him influence him in his later life?
(a) he told them to his own children
(b) they were a constant reminder of his father and his father's goodness
(c) they were a spiritualizing factor, enabling him to comprehend the incomprehensible
(d) he remembered them when he suffered from insomnia

3. What did Krestovsky teach Gurdjieff?
(a) mathematics and physiology
(b) Scripture and Russian
(c) anatomy and psychology
(d) history and geography

4. What did Pogossian look like?
(a) He was tall, fair-haired with a full beard.
(b) He was fat with a ruddy complexion and wore glasses.
(c) He was small, dark and clean-shaven.
(d) He was of medium height, dark , with a small moustache.

5. What are Soloviev's early vices?
(a) lying and cheating in school
(b) gluttony and cruelty to animals
(c) street fighting and gambling
(d) drinking and stealing from his mother

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gurdjieff and Pogossian pursue together?

2. How did Gurdjieff's father lose his fortune as the richest cattle owner in Armenia?

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

4. Where did Gurdjieff witness his third ashokh contest?

5. Where does Gurdjieff sell paper flowers and what else does he sell there?

(see the answer key)

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