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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 had Gurdjieff promised himself to do after completing his first series of writing?
(a) drink all the bottles of Calvados in the wine cellar of the Prieure
(b) visit his relatives and friends and relax
(c) consult with all his learned tutors
(d) go on a vacation to the Black Sea

2. Gurdjieff read books on various subjects written in what languages?
(a) Aramaic, Hebrew and Greek
(b) Greek, Turkish and Latin
(c) Greek, Hebrew and Turko-Tartar
(d) Greek, Armenian and Russian

3. 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) two traveling bandits turn out to be friendly clowns
(c) fierce threatening dogs sit now quiety when they sit down
(d) threatening peasants suddenly start laughing

4. What did Gurdjieff and Yelov have in common?
(a) an interest in women
(b) an interest in medicine
(c) an interest in becoming wealthy
(d) an interest in books and philosophical questions

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the chief monastery of the Essene Brotherhood situated?

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

3. How did Gurdjieff and Pogossian happen to meet?

4. What did Ekim Bey write in a later letter to Gurdjieff?

5. What was the title of the first book in Gurdjieff's series?

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