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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Mr. X or Captain Pogossian.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Gurdjieff remember Pogossian?
(a) as a fellow adventurer who never achieved his goals
(b) as a lazy but dear friend
(c) as a simple man with a deep faith
(d) as a workaholic who became a wealthy ship owner

2. What was Father Borsh's view about a youth before he attained adulthood?
(a) He wasn't responsible for any of his acts
(b) He was a non-entity.
(c) He was responsible for his acts.
(d) He should be severely punished for wrong doing

3. What had Gurdjieff's family first intended him to be?
(a) an ashokh or bard
(b) a soldier
(c) a cattle herder
(d) a priest

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

5. What did Pogossian's parents do for a living?
(a) His father was a potter, his mother a seamstress.
(b) His father was a teacher, his mother a laundress.
(c) His father was a dyer, his mother an embroideress in gold
(d) His father was a merchant, his mother a housewife.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Vseslavsky?

2. How does Gurdjieff sum up the literature of his times?

3. What did Krestovsky teach Gurdjieff?

4. Why did Gurdjieff go to Alexandropol?

5. What was Ani?

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