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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What town, inaccessible to Europeans, do Skridlov and Gurdjieff want to go to after visiting Bukara?
(a) Kafiristan
(b) Kabul
(c) Mecca
(d) Kaftan

2. What was his father's profession?
(a) He was an educator at the military academy.
(b) He was a cattle herder.
(c) He was a rich contractor.
(d) He was a menial laborer.

3. How did Gurdjieff meet Abram Yelov?
(a) Yelov was the friend of a friend.
(b) Yelov came to Gurdjieff's aid during a fight.
(c) Yelov was living in the same inn that Gurdjieff lived in
(d) Yelov traded books and Gurdjieff bought books from him

4. How does Skirdlov describe himself as he sits on mountaintop at the end of Chapter 10?
(a) as a puny mortal
(b) as a devote mystic
(c) as an hysterical woman
(d) as a kind of God

5. What is Vitvitskaia's story?
(a) She was a belly dancer in Egypt.
(b) She was a medium whom the prince consulted.
(c) She was sold into slavery and the Prince saved her.
(d) She was the girlhood friend of the prince's sister

6. What did the Seekers of Truth do at the end of the summer that Gurdjieff spent in Alexandropol?
(a) planned to join him in his experiments with vibrations
(b) planned to join him on a trip to Egypt
(c) planned a trip to Ani, the ancient Armenian captial with him
(d) threw Gurdjieff out of the group

7. What happened to Ekim Bey in Suram?
(a) He became friends witih Gurdjieff and all his friends
(b) He caught pneumonia and nearly died.
(c) He lost a lot of money gambling
(d) He found an ancient Armenian manuscript.

8. Why did Gurdjieff stay in Ekim Bey's house?
(a) He was working as tutor to Ekim's younger brother.
(b) He had become ill after diving for Bey's father's chaplet
(c) He was visiting because he was a friend of the family
(d) He was a servant in the Bey household.

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

10. Whom do Gurdjieff and Skridlov meet in Afridis?
(a) Father Giovanni
(b) an old Yogi
(c) Father Francis
(d) an old Armenian priest

11. When did Gurdjieff meet Abram Yelov?
(a) When he was visiting his family
(b) When he had buried himelf in reading ancient liturature in Tiflis.
(c) When he was suffering from a high fever and pneumonia
(d) When he given up his search for ancient truths

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

13. How does Gurdjieff earn money in Constantinople?
(a) selling Christian relics
(b) telling fortunes
(c) diving for coins tossed from ships
(d) selling sausages

14. What is another conclusion that Gurdjieff came to while writing Chapter 8?
(a) Asian civilization was far behind European civilization
(b) Asians were several hundred years ahead of Europeans
(c) Asians were more religious than Europeans
(d) Asians were primitive savages

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ekim Bey write in a later letter to Gurdjieff?

2. What did Yelov have a great talent for?

3. What was Abram Yelov's background?

4. How did Gurdjieff meet Professor Skridlov?

5. How did the Aisors make money?

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