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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. What had Gurdjieff's family first intended him to be?
(a) an ashokh or bard
(b) a cattle herder
(c) a soldier
(d) a priest

2. What position did Gurdjieff's first tutor hold?
(a) He was a priest in Gurdjieff's church
(b) He was dean of the Kars Military Cathedral
(c) He was the dean of a university
(d) He was bishop of the Kars Cathedral

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

4. How did Gurdjieff and Pogossian happen to meet?
(a) .They met at the marketplace in Echmiadzin.
(b) They met at an inn where they both happened to be staying
(c) Gurdjieff was delivering a parcel to him from his parents
(d) They met in a church where there had been a miracle

5. How does Gurdjieff's opinion about Vitvitskaia change?
(a) It changes from liking her to disliking her.
(b) It changes from critical judgment to praise of her virtue.
(c) It changes to one of fear of her powers which he feels are evil
(d) It changes from indifference to romantic involvement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tendency of his father's nature was defined by Gurdieff as virtuous?

2. What did Gurdjieff's aunt warn him about?

3. Why did Soloviev leave his home town when he was in school?

4. When was the Essene Brotherhood established?

5. What was Pogossian bitten by?

(see the answer key)

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