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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, The Material Question.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What business scheme did Gurdjieff come up with in Paris?
(a) being a tour guide
(b) converting long corsets to the popular short corsets
(c) selling paintings on the Left Bank of the Seine
(d) selling fashionable women's hats

3. When did Gurdjieff meet Abram Yelov?
(a) When he was visiting his family
(b) When he was suffering from a high fever and pneumonia
(c) When he had buried himelf in reading ancient liturature in Tiflis.
(d) When he given up his search for ancient truths

4. Who are the Yezidis?
(a) a sect living in Transcaucasia called devil-worshippers
(b) a primitive tribe living in the Gobi desert
(c) hermits who are considered holy men
(d) whirling dervishes

5. What religion do Gurdjieff and Skridlov want to find out about?
(a) Hinduism
(b) Islam
(c) Catholicism
(d) Protestantism

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gurdjieff learn from the dervish?

2. When did Gurdjieff first acquire the desire to attain wealth?

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

4. What kinds of demonstrations does Gurdjieff's Institute in Paris have?

5. How does Gurdfieff lose all the money he had amassed?

(see the answer key)

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