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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the two travelers do after their thirst for knowledge is satisfied ?
(a) They decide to become monks.
(b) They return to Russia and their families
(c) They start a school to teach what they have learned.
(d) They fall into a deep depression.

2. What did the dervish disapprove of that Gurdjieff did?
(a) He disapproved of Gurdjieff's deceitfulness
(b) He disapproved of Gurdjieff's way of speaking
(c) He disapproved of Gurdjieff's clothing
(d) He disapproved Gurdjieff's practice of Hatha Yoga

3. What religion do Gurdjieff and Skridlov want to find out about?
(a) Protestantism
(b) Hinduism
(c) Catholicism
(d) Islam

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

5. What finally happened to Yelov?
(a) He settled comfortably in a city in North America.
(b) He died a pauper in Moscow.
(c) He became a language professor at Moscow University.
(d) He and his wife and children moved to Greece.

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

7. Whom does Gurdjieff meet in a billiard hall in New Bukara and what transpires?
(a) He meets a prostitute and goes home with her.
(b) He meets the prince again and they play billiards
(c) He meets Ekim Bey who is on vacation.
(d) He meets Soloviev whom he saves from a beating.

8. What did Gurdjieff and Karpenko decide to do in order to settle their dispute over the girl?
(a) fight a duel
(b) enter a singing contest where the winner would win her
(c) give her an ultimatum of choosing one of them
(d) ask for her hand in marriage

9. What was Abram Yelov's background?
(a) He was of the Aisor people who had a bad reputation
(b) He had left the military in disgrace.
(c) He was a former student of theology.
(d) He had been a sailor on a Turkish ship.

10. For whom is Gurdjieff working when he first meets Prince Ludbovedsky?
(a) for the English on a ship anchored at Alexandria
(b) for his father
(c) for the Russian archaeologist Skridlov
(d) for Dean Borsh

11. How does Gurdjieff's opinion about Vitvitskaia change?
(a) It changes from liking her to disliking her.
(b) It changes from critical judgment to praise of her virtue.
(c) It changes from indifference to romantic involvement.
(d) It changes to one of fear of her powers which he feels are evil

12. Where does Gurdjieff meet Professor Skridlov for the second time and what do they do?
(a) They meet in Armenia and search for old parchments.
(b) They meet in Thebes and they excavate a tomb together.
(c) THey meet in Russia and discuss their travels.
(d) They meet on Patmos and explore antiquities.

13. What do Gurdjieff and Skridlov do to be accepted in Bukara where Europeans are hated?
(a) They decide to disguise themselves as whirling dervishes
(b) They grow beards in order to pose as holy men
(c) They decide to convert to Islam
(d) They take lots of money to bribe people

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gurdjieff do in Rome?

2. Where do Gurdjieff and Ekim Bey first meet?

3. How does Gurdjieff earn money in Constantinople?

4. How did Yelov view his mother?

5. How did Gurdjieff meet Professor Skridlov?

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