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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 is it impossible to do even if one is an excellent linguist?
(a) speak like a native in a foreign language.
(b) think in a foreign language while speaking one's native tongue
(c) dream in a foreign language
(d) speak more than five languages fluently

2. What state did Gurdjieff experience, according to Mullah Nassr Eddin's words, after many sleepless nights?
(a) "to feel oneself run over by a herd of camels"
(b) "to feel oneself plunged in galoshes to the eyebrows"
(c) "to feel oneself tired to the bone"
(d) "to feel like death warmed over"

3. What did Father Borsh look like?
(a) He was large and robust with a ruddy complexion
(b) He was tall and thin, with a fine-looking face
(c) He was tall and big-boned with an intelligent face
(d) He was short and fat and wore glasses

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

5. What did Ekim Bey and Gurdjieff get permission to do from the police in Old Tashkent ?
(a) to advertise on posters throughout the town.
(b) to sell religious relics in the outdoor marketplace
(c) to hold healing services in a Mosque
(d) to hold seances in the town hall

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the conclusions Gurdjieff came to which he shares with the reader at the end of Chapter 8?

2. How was Yelov considered by his family?

3. Who was the fortuneteller whom Gurdjieff's aunt consulted?

4. Where did the second contest that Gurdjieff witnessed take place?

5. When did Gurdjieff meet Pogossian and become friends with him?

(see the answer key)

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