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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 soldier
(c) a priest
(d) a cattle herder

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

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

4. What language did the bards sing when they competed in contests?
(a) Turkish
(b) Turko-Tartar
(c) Russian
(d) Turko-Russian

5. Where was Sarkis Pogossian born and of what race was he?
(a) He was Turkish and he was born in Greece.
(b) He was Armenian but he was born in Turkey.
(c) He was Greek and he was born in Armenia.
(d) He was Armenian and he was born in Transcaucasia.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did Gurdjieff go to Alexandropol?

3. What does Pogossian decide to do when they arrive in Alexandria?

4. What did Sokolov teach Gurdjieff?

5. What is the other name Bogachevsky goes by?

(see the answer key)

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