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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 legend did Gurdjieff's father and Dean Borsh discuss all night while Gurdjieff and his uncle listened to them?
(a) the legend of "the Creation of the World"
(b) the legend of " The Lost City of Babul"
(c) the legend of the "Flood before the Flood"
(d) the legend of "the Secret of the Gobi Desert"

2. Where do Gurdjieff and Ekim Bey first meet?
(a) n Kars
(b) In Egypt
(c) in Alexandropol
(d) In Constantinople

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

4. What was awakened in Gurdjieff while listening to Bogachevsky and his friends' discussions around the samovar?
(a) a feeling of inferiority when he compared himself with them
(b) an interest in mathematics
(c) an interest in becoming a member of the Essene Brotherhood
(d) an interest in abstract questions and spiritualism

5. With whom did Gurdjieff's father carry on long conversations about philosophy and theology?
(a) with his close friend, Ivan Ivanovich
(b) with Gurdjieff himself
(c) with his brother, Gurdjieff's beloved uncle
(d) with Gurdjieff's first tutor, Dean Borsh

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Gurdjieff meet Abram Yelov?

2. Why did Gurdjieff stay in Ekim Bey's house?

3. What was an ashokh which Gurdjieff's father was?

4. Where do Gurdjieff and Soloviev travel together?

5. When did Gurdjieff meet Karpenko?

(see the answer key)

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