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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. Gurdjieff changed his custom of drinking armagnac from liqueur glasses to drinking from what kind of glass?
(a) wine glasses
(b) tumblers
(c) champagne glasses
(d) shot glasses

2. What finally happens to Vitvitskaia?
(a) She has a child out of wedlock and raises it in Russia.
(b) She takes ill on a journey and dies in Samara.
(c) She marries a wealthy book dealer in Moscow.
(d) She travels to North America and settles there.

3. How old was Dean Borsh when he first taught Gurdjieff and visited his father to discuss religious and historical subjects?
(a) sixty-eight
(b) seventy-five
(c) seventy
(d) seventy-two

4. For whom is Gurdjieff working when he first meets Prince Ludbovedsky?
(a) for his father
(b) for Dean Borsh
(c) for the English on a ship anchored at Alexandria
(d) for the Russian archaeologist Skridlov

5. Who was Kouzmin?
(a) the abbot of the chief monastery of the Essene Brotherhood
(b) a fellow member of the Essene Brotherhood
(c) an artillery officer and pyrotechnical expert
(d) Dean Bosh's friend

Short Answer Questions

1. Skidlov and Gurdjieff seek the source of what river together?

2. What town, inaccessible to Europeans, do Skridlov and Gurdjieff want to go to after visiting Bukara?

3. What did Gurdjieff propose to do in his second book, "Meetings with Remarkable Men"?

4. What did Gurdjieff's aunt warn him about?

5. What does Gurdjieff say formed him as a business man?

(see the answer key)

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