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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 did Gurdjieff and Pogossian secure passage on a ship to Egypt?
(a) They got jobs as crew members on an Egyptian ship.
(b) They came to the aid of some English sailors in a fight.
(c) They sneaked on board a ship destined for Alexandria
(d) The bribed a ship's captain to take them to Egypt.

2. What did the Yezidis believe?
(a) they will some day take over the world
(b) they cannot leave a circle that is drawn around them
(c) they are the chosen-ones and have special powers
(d) they are suseptible to many diseases

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

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

5. Where did the second contest that Gurdjieff witnessed take place?
(a) Bagdad
(b) Istanbul in Turkey
(c) Baku in Turkey
(d) Karabakh in Azerbaijan

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Gurdjieff view his father?

2. Why did Gurdjieff go to Alexandropol?

3. When was the Essene Brotherhood established?

4. How did Gurdjieff's father lose his fortune as the richest cattle owner in Armenia?

5. Between what ages did Father Borsh feel females were fully developed?

(see the answer key)

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