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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. Where did the second contest that Gurdjieff witnessed take place?
(a) Baku in Turkey
(b) Istanbul in Turkey
(c) Bagdad
(d) Karabakh in Azerbaijan

2. How did the stories Gurdjieff's father told him influence him in his later life?
(a) he remembered them when he suffered from insomnia
(b) they were a constant reminder of his father and his father's goodness
(c) they were a spiritualizing factor, enabling him to comprehend the incomprehensible
(d) he told them to his own children

3. How did the Aisors make money?
(a) They were mostly shepherds.
(b) They were book sellers.
(c) They were farmers.
(d) They sold ancient Christian relics.

4. Gurdjieff intended to write his book in accordance with what counsel for living employed by Mullah Nassr Eddin?
(a) "strive to attain knowledge and use it in one's life"
(b) "strive to be honest and virtuous in all that you do"
(c) "strive to attain what is useful for others and pleasant for oneself"
(d) "strive to work hard, be modest and help others"

5. What did Ekim Bey write in a later letter to Gurdjieff?
(a) He wrote he was a physician and would like to visit Gurdjieff
(b) He wrote that he had joined the military.
(c) He wrote that he was traveling to Egypt .
(d) He wrote that he had become a dervish.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Imastun brethren study?

2. How does Gurdjieff remember Pogossian?

3. What is Vitvitskaia's story?

4. What happened to Ekim Bey in Suram?

5. What is the other name Bogachevsky goes by?

(see the answer key)

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