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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. Who was allowed access to Father Borsh's room?
(a) Any students at the Kars Military Cathedral
(b) Gurdjieff and Father Borsh's orderly
(c) Anyone seeking help or advice
(d) Gurdjieff and Gurdjieff's father

2. What did Ekim Bey and Gurdjieff do when they reached Old Tashkent?
(a) They sent another wire for money.
(b) They were given room and board with an old dervish.
(c) Bey posed as a fakir and Gurdjieff as a sword swallower.
(d) They waited at the telegraph office for money to arrive

3. Who are the Yezidis?
(a) whirling dervishes
(b) hermits who are considered holy men
(c) a sect living in Transcaucasia called devil-worshippers
(d) a primitive tribe living in the Gobi desert

4. What was Gurdjieff's purpose in traveling to Echmiadzin?
(a) He was visiting relatives.
(b) He was on holiday.
(c) He sought answers to questions of supernatural phenomena.
(d) He was looking for work since he was out of money.

5. Gurdjieff changed his custom of drinking armagnac from liqueur glasses to drinking from what kind of glass?
(a) champagne glasses
(b) wine glasses
(c) tumblers
(d) shot glasses

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Gurdjieff go to Alexandropol?

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

3. Whom did Gurdjieff and his friends go out of the way to visit and why?

4. On their expedition in search of the school run by the Sarmoung Brotherhood what experience causes Gurdjieff and Pogossian great fear but then hilarious laughter?

5. What happened to Ekim Bey in Suram?

(see the answer key)

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