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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. How does Gurdfieff lose all the money he had amassed?
(a) He lends it to a needy friend who doesn't pay him back.
(b) He gambles it away.
(c) It is confiscated by the Russian government.
(d) He invests it in one more business venture which fails.

2. What did Gurdjieff and Pogossian pursue together?
(a) They decided to pursue medical careers together.
(b) They pursued a career in agriculture.
(c) They became interested in ancient Armenian books.
(d) They studied the Scriptures together.

3. Why did the expedition travel towards Bagdad instead of going as previously planned to the Persian Gulf?
(a) They decided the origiinal journey was too dangerous.
(b) Karpenko and Prince Nijeradze had fallen ill
(c) They had run out of food.
(d) They had heard about a wise old priest with a secret to share

4. What were Yelov and Pogossian forever doing to each other?
(a) challenging each other's knowledge of literature
(b) having continual fist fights
(c) having eating contests
(d) forever exchanging faux insults and barbs in fun

5. What did Pogossian do after graduating from the seminary?
(a) He became a teacher at the seminary.
(b) He married and became a priest with his own parish.
(c) He worked with Gurdjieff at the railway station as a locksmith
(d) He left the church and studied languages.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Gurdjieff, contemporary literature falls into which three categories?

2. How did Yelov view his mother?

3. What do Gurdjieff and Skridlov do to be accepted in Bukara where Europeans are hated?

4. Gurdjieff changed his custom of drinking armagnac from liqueur glasses to drinking from what kind of glass?

5. Who, in Gurdjieff's opinion, invents the grammar of languages?

(see the answer key)

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