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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Ekim Bey.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was Pogossian bitten by?
(a) a big yellow phalanga, a kind of tarantula
(b) a viper
(c) a malaria mosquito
(d) a Kurd sheep dog

3. 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) Gurdjieff came down with pneumonia.
(c) A large sore, a carbuncle, appeared on Gurdjieff's side
(d) A severe rash broke out all over Gurdjieff's body

4. What was his father's profession?
(a) He was an educator at the military academy.
(b) He was a rich contractor.
(c) He was a menial laborer.
(d) He was a cattle herder.

5. Who was Kouzmin?
(a) the abbot of the chief monastery of the Essene Brotherhood
(b) a fellow member of the Essene Brotherhood
(c) an artillery officer and pyrotechnical expert
(d) Dean Bosh's friend

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Gurdjieff meet Abram Yelov?

2. With whom did Bogachevsky share lodgings?

3. Why did Gurdjieff stay in Ekim Bey's house?

4. What were the Aisors called?

5. What is one of the conclusions Gurdjieff came to which he shares with the reader at the end of Chapter 8?

(see the answer key)

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