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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. Upon Yelov's suggestion what scheme did Gurdjieff devise for making a lot of money?
(a) He sold old maps for high prices, saying they were rare
(b) He learned secret recipes and sold them to restaurants
(c) He performed magic tricks
(d) He slyly learned from an Italian how to make plaster casts

2. What position did Gurdjieff's first tutor hold?
(a) He was a priest in Gurdjieff's church
(b) He was dean of the Kars Military Cathedral
(c) He was the dean of a university
(d) He was bishop of the Kars Cathedral

3. Between what ages did Father Borsh feel a male was fully developed?
(a) between the ages of nineteen and twenty-two
(b) between the ages of eighteen and twenty
(c) between the ages of twenty and twenty-three
(d) between the ages of nineteen and twenty-one

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

5. What did Father Borsh think that the gratification of lust before adulthood would do to a youth?
(a) stunt his growth
(b) drive him insane
(c) turn him into a monstrosity
(d) make a man of him

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another conclusion that Gurdjieff came to while writing Chapter 8?

2. What were the Aisors called?

3. What does Pogossian decide to do when they arrive in Alexandria?

4. What did Sokolov teach Gurdjieff?

5. Why was the lumber yard that Gurdjieff's father opened a failure?

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