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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 first meet Dean Borsh?
(a) at a funeral of a family friend
(b) on a street in Kars, his childhood home town
(c) after joining the cathedral choir
(d) in his father's workshop

2. What did Gurdjieff dream of specializing in?
(a) He dreamed of medical specialization.
(b) He dreamed of becoming a writer.
(c) He dreamed of technical specialization.
(d) He dreamed of the spiritual specialization of the priesthood.

3. Gurdjieff changed his custom of drinking armagnac from liqueur glasses to drinking from what kind of glass?
(a) shot glasses
(b) tumblers
(c) wine glasses
(d) champagne glasses

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

5. Besides having an accident with a firearm, what other prediction of the fortuneteller came true about Gurdjieff?
(a) Gurdjieff fell ill with a high fever
(b) A severe rash broke out all over Gurdjieff's body
(c) A large sore, a carbuncle, appeared on Gurdjieff's side
(d) Gurdjieff came down with pneumonia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gurdjieff intended to write his book in accordance with what counsel for living employed by Mullah Nassr Eddin?

2. What has the literature of contemporary civilization to give according to Gurdjieff?

3. In whose house did Gurdjieff and Pogossian stay in the city of N?

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

5. What did the Imastun brethren study?

(see the answer key)

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