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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Piotr Karpenko.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Gurdjieff and Ekim Bey do first when they ran out of money?
(a) They prayed for a miracle.
(b) They became beggars.
(c) They sent for money to be wired to them.
(d) They got jobs and waiters.

2. What does Pogossian decide to do when they arrive in Alexandria?
(a) He decides to stay on the ship, working in the engine room
(b) He decides to steal the copy of "pre-sand Egypt"
(c) He decides to become a tour guide along with Gurdjieff
(d) He decides to return home to Turkey

3. What were the Aisors called?
(a) peasants
(b) gypsies
(c) the lost people of Ur
(d) "stealers of crosses"

4. 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?
(a) a wide river crossing turns out to be extemely shallow
(b) fierce threatening dogs sit now quiety when they sit down
(c) two traveling bandits turn out to be friendly clowns
(d) threatening peasants suddenly start laughing

5. Where is the chief monastery of the Essene Brotherhood situated?
(a) not far from the shores of the Dead Sea
(b) near Jerusalem
(c) near the sea of Galilee
(d) in Nazareth

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Gurdjieff sell paper flowers and what else does he sell there?

3. How does Gurdjieff's opinion about Vitvitskaia change?

4. Why did people think Dean Borsh was peculiar?

5. Where did Gurdjieff''s father come from?

(see the answer key)

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