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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. When did Gurdjieff meet Karpenko?
(a) on his trip to Egypt
(b) during his childhood in Kars
(c) in Russia when he was middle-aged
(d) in Alexandropol

2. What did Ekim Bey and Gurdjieff get permission to do from the police in Old Tashkent ?
(a) to advertise on posters throughout the town.
(b) to hold seances in the town hall
(c) to sell religious relics in the outdoor marketplace
(d) to hold healing services in a Mosque

3. What does Gurdjieff do in Rome?
(a) He sells figurines
(b) He is a fisherman.
(c) He is a waiter at an inn.
(d) He shines shoes

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

5. When did Gurdjieff meet Pogossian and become friends with him?
(a) in Baku on a trip
(b) when Pogossian was finishing his seminary studies
(c) in Kars during his childhood
(d) in Paldevan during his vacation

Short Answer Questions

1. What, in Gurdjieff's opinion, has harmed contemporary literature?

2. What did Gurdjieff and Karpenko decide to do in order to settle their dispute over the girl?

3. What did the Seekers of Truth do at the end of the summer that Gurdjieff spent in Alexandropol?

4. Why does Prince Lubovedsky turn to spiritualism?

5. How did the stories Gurdjieff's father told him influence him in his later life?

(see the answer key)

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