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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 Pogossian look like?
(a) He was small, dark and clean-shaven.
(b) He was fat with a ruddy complexion and wore glasses.
(c) He was tall, fair-haired with a full beard.
(d) He was of medium height, dark , with a small moustache.

2. How did Gurdjieff and Pogossian happen to meet?
(a) .They met at the marketplace in Echmiadzin.
(b) Gurdjieff was delivering a parcel to him from his parents
(c) They met in a church where there had been a miracle
(d) They met at an inn where they both happened to be staying

3. What was Gurdjieff doing in Alexandropol when Karpenko stopped off to see him?
(a) studying to be a hypnotist
(b) studying the influence of vibrations on living things
(c) studying ancient languages
(d) studying spiritualism

4. What is one of the conclusions Gurdjieff came to which he shares with the reader at the end of Chapter 8?
(a) he liked living in Kars the best
(b) Europians are superior to Asians
(c) none of his many friends have the answers to his questions
(d) no one in Europe knows or has any idea about Asia

5. Skidlov and Gurdjieff seek the source of what river together?
(a) the Nile
(b) the Volga
(c) the Tiber
(d) the Euphrates

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Pogossian bitten by?

2. How does Gurdjieff remember Pogossian?

3. What was an ashokh which Gurdjieff's father was?

4. What finally happens to Vitvitskaia?

5. Who wound up with the girl, Gurdjieff or Karpenko?

(see the answer key)

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