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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 happened to Ekim Bey in Suram?
(a) He found an ancient Armenian manuscript.
(b) He lost a lot of money gambling
(c) He caught pneumonia and nearly died.
(d) He became friends witih Gurdjieff and all his friends

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

3. How did Gurdjieff and Pogossian happen to meet?
(a) .They met at the marketplace in Echmiadzin.
(b) Gurdjieff was delivering a parcel to him from his parents
(c) They met in a church where there had been a miracle
(d) They met at an inn where they both happened to be staying

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

5. With whom is Gurdjieff reunited at the monastery and what do they do together?
(a) with Prince Lubovesky and they watch a sacred dance
(b) with Pogossian and they visit the waterfall daily
(c) with Vitvitskaia and they fall in love.
(d) with Ekim Bey and they collaborate on a book.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Yelov think about his father?

2. Between what ages did Father Borsh feel a male was fully developed?

3. How does Gurdjieff remember Pogossian?

4. What was Yelov's physical appearance?

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

(see the answer key)

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