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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. Gurdjieff read books on various subjects written in what languages?
(a) Aramaic, Hebrew and Greek
(b) Greek, Turkish and Latin
(c) Greek, Hebrew and Turko-Tartar
(d) Greek, Armenian and Russian

2. When did Gurdjieff meet Pogossian and become friends with him?
(a) in Baku on a trip
(b) in Paldevan during his vacation
(c) when Pogossian was finishing his seminary studies
(d) in Kars during his childhood

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

4. What position did Gurdjieff's first tutor hold?
(a) He was a priest in Gurdjieff's church
(b) He was dean of the Kars Military Cathedral
(c) He was bishop of the Kars Cathedral
(d) He was the dean of a university

5. What did Bogachevsky counsel men to do in order to live a moral life?
(a) a man should follow his own conscience and not heed others
(b) a man should try to please others
(c) a man should travel the world and observe people
(d) a man should study many subjects and become educated

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the stories Gurdjieff's father told him influence him in his later life?

2. What state did Gurdjieff experience, according to Mullah Nassr Eddin's words, after many sleepless nights?

3. What was awakened in Gurdjieff while listening to Bogachevsky and his friends' discussions around the samovar?

4. Why does Gurdjieff criticize newspaper literary critics?

5. In what town did the first of the ashokh contests which Gurdjieff witnessed take place?

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