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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. How did Gurdjieff 's father react when misfortunes befell him?
(a) He cursed God and his fate
(b) He sought comfort from his friends and family
(c) He had an inner calm and detachment
(d) He wept and wailed

2. Besides having an accident with a firearm, what other prediction of the fortuneteller came true about Gurdjieff?
(a) Gurdjieff came down with pneumonia.
(b) A large sore, a carbuncle, appeared on Gurdjieff's side
(c) Gurdjieff fell ill with a high fever
(d) A severe rash broke out all over Gurdjieff's body

3. Why did Soloviev leave his home town when he was in school?
(a) He followed a traveling circus performer named Verka
(b) He was seeking answers to esoteric questions.
(c) He was running from the police.
(d) He wanted to experience adventures.

4. Why was the lumber yard that Gurdjieff's father opened a failure?
(a) A disease attacked the forests in the area
(b) Gurdjieff's father had too many enemies and not enough customers
(c) His father had no business experience and was too honest
(d) People were poor and couldn't afford lumber

5. What did the Yezidis believe?
(a) they will some day take over the world
(b) they are suseptible to many diseases
(c) they are the chosen-ones and have special powers
(d) they cannot leave a circle that is drawn around them

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Father Borsh think that the gratification of lust before adulthood would do to a youth?

3. Who are the Yezidis?

4. With whom is Gurdjieff reunited at the monastery and what do they do together?

5. What finally happens to Vitvitskaia?

(see the answer key)

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