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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 the group do when they reached Bagdad?
(a) They all decided to go to Egypt.
(b) They resumed their trip toward the Persian Gulf.
(c) After staying a month, they all went in different directions.
(d) They all went to Russia.

2. What does Pogossian decide to do when they arrive in Alexandria?
(a) He decides to return home to Turkey
(b) He decides to become a tour guide along with Gurdjieff
(c) He decides to steal the copy of "pre-sand Egypt"
(d) He decides to stay on the ship, working in the engine room

3. Why did Gurdjieff stay in Ekim Bey's house?
(a) He was visiting because he was a friend of the family
(b) He was a servant in the Bey household.
(c) He was working as tutor to Ekim's younger brother.
(d) He had become ill after diving for Bey's father's chaplet

4. What does Gurdjieff first cover in his long narrative and the opening of the Institute?
(a) if there will be dues for membership
(b) what the requirements for membership will be
(c) ridiculous ways to make money
(d) what the Institute will teach

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gurdjieff's opinion about Vitvitskaia change?

2. How does Gurdjieff earn money in Constantinople?

3. What are Skirlov and Gurdjieff invited to visit by the man they meet in Afridis who speaks Greek with Gurdjieff?

4. Besides having an accident with a firearm, what other prediction of the fortuneteller came true about Gurdjieff?

5. What school was Ekim Bey attending when Gurdjieff met him?

(see the answer key)

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