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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. Why does Prince Lubovedsky turn to spiritualism?
(a) his young wife dies in childbirth and he wants to contact her
(b) His whole family is interested in spiritualism.
(c) A fortune teller tells him he should.
(d) He wants to become a medium

2. What is Vitvitskaia's story?
(a) She was the girlhood friend of the prince's sister
(b) She was a medium whom the prince consulted.
(c) She was sold into slavery and the Prince saved her.
(d) She was a belly dancer in Egypt.

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

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

5. What did Yelov think about his father?
(a) He looked up to him and honored him
(b) He loved him more than life itself
(c) He thought he was a petty, vain and willful man.
(d) He was extremely proud of his father.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Aisors make money?

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

3. What was Father Borsh's view about a youth before he attained adulthood?

4. Where was Sarkis Pogossian born and of what race was he?

5. What was his father's profession?

(see the answer key)

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