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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. Which two animals did Gurdjieff feel a man should embody?
(a) the serpent and the dove
(b) the wolf and the kid
(c) the lamb and the lion
(d) the wolf and the sheep

2. According to Gurdjieff, contemporary literature falls into which three categories?
(a) non-fiction, newspapers and travel books
(b) science books, magazines and newspapers
(c) non-fiction, poetry and journalism
(d) the scientific field, narratives (novels) and descriptions

3. Who was allowed access to Father Borsh's room?
(a) Anyone seeking help or advice
(b) Gurdjieff and Father Borsh's orderly
(c) Any students at the Kars Military Cathedral
(d) Gurdjieff and Gurdjieff's father

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Yezidis believe?

2. On their expedition in search of the school run by the Sarmoung Brotherhood what experience causes Gurdjieff and Pogossian great fear but then hilarious laughter?

3. What did Sokolov teach Gurdjieff?

4. Besides having an accident with a firearm, what other prediction of the fortuneteller came true about Gurdjieff?

5. What, in Gurdjieff's opinion, has harmed contemporary literature?

(see the answer key)

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