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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Professor Skridlov.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What phenomenon do Bogachevsky and his friends experiment with?
(a) divining people's names by holding their hands
(b) summoning spirits from the dead using a medium
(c) disappearing rabbits
(d) "table turning"--laying hands on a table and asking it questions

2. What diploma did Karpenko obtain in Russia before becoming a member of the Seekers of Truth?
(a) a diploma in foreign languages
(b) a diploma in mathematics
(c) a diploma in psychology
(d) a diploma as a mining engineer

3. Between what ages did Father Borsh feel a male was fully developed?
(a) between the ages of nineteen and twenty-one
(b) between the ages of twenty and twenty-three
(c) between the ages of eighteen and twenty
(d) between the ages of nineteen and twenty-two

4. How did Gurdjieff's father lose his fortune as the richest cattle owner in Armenia?
(a) a widespread cattle plague
(b) A rival cattle owner stole most of his cattle
(c) He was a bad breeder and couldn't care for his cattle
(d) He lost his cattle gambling

5. What did Pogossian do after graduating from the seminary?
(a) He worked with Gurdjieff at the railway station as a locksmith
(b) He became a teacher at the seminary.
(c) He left the church and studied languages.
(d) He married and became a priest with his own parish.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Skirdlov describe himself as he sits on mountaintop at the end of Chapter 10?

2. What would Gurdjieff's father do on evenings before Sundays and holidays?

3. What did the group do when they reached Bagdad?

4. What was the "Sarmoung"?

5. What had Gurdjieff promised himself to do after completing his first series of writing?

(see the answer key)

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