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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 was one of Yelov's peculiar habits?
(a) twitching his ears
(b) humming constantly
(c) hitching up his trousers
(d) reciting ancient Greek poems to everyone he met

2. What did Sokolov teach Gurdjieff?
(a) anatomy and physiology
(b) mathematics and geography
(c) physics and mathematics
(d) Scripture and history

3. What state did Gurdjieff experience, according to Mullah Nassr Eddin's words, after many sleepless nights?
(a) "to feel oneself plunged in galoshes to the eyebrows"
(b) "to feel like death warmed over"
(c) "to feel oneself tired to the bone"
(d) "to feel oneself run over by a herd of camels"

4. What did Father Borsh think that the gratification of lust before adulthood would do to a youth?
(a) stunt his growth
(b) make a man of him
(c) drive him insane
(d) turn him into a monstrosity

5. Why did Soloviev leave his home town when he was in school?
(a) He was running from the police.
(b) He was seeking answers to esoteric questions.
(c) He wanted to experience adventures.
(d) He followed a traveling circus performer named Verka

Short Answer Questions

1. What had Gurdjieff's family first intended him to be?

2. What is Vitvitskaia's story?

3. What has the literature of contemporary civilization to give according to Gurdjieff?

4. What was awakened in Gurdjieff while listening to Bogachevsky and his friends' discussions around the samovar?

5. What was Father Borsh's view about a youth before he attained adulthood?

(see the answer key)

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