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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. What did Krestovsky teach Gurdjieff?
(a) history and geography
(b) Scripture and Russian
(c) anatomy and psychology
(d) mathematics and physiology

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

3. How many books had Gurdjieff first planned to write ?
(a) thirty-one
(b) thirty-four
(c) thirty-two
(d) thirty-six

4. What has the literature of contemporary civilization to give according to Gurdjieff?
(a) the development of "an illusory view of life"
(b) the development of "word prostitution"
(c) the development of "lies"
(d) the development of "superficiality in everyday life"

5. Where did Captain Pogossian spend his childhood?
(a) in Transcaucasia, in the town of Kars
(b) in Turkey, in Ephesus
(c) in Greece, on the island of Patmos
(d) in Russia, on the Black Sea

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of education was Father Borsh in favor of having Gurdjieff pursue?

2. When did Gurdjieff meet Pogossian and become friends with him?

3. What tendency of his father's nature was defined by Gurdieff as virtuous?

4. What treasure did Gurdjieff secretly get from the Armenian priest?

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

(see the answer key)

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