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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) threw Gurdjieff out of the group
(d) planned a trip to Ani, the ancient Armenian captial with him

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

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

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

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

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

9. Whom did Gurdjieff and his friends go out of the way to visit and why?
(a) a Persian dervish who was supposed to be very wise
(b) a wizard
(c) a famous Tibetan monk
(d) an old Armenian priest

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

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

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

13. Whom does Skridlov visit in Russia?
(a) his two daughters
(b) members of the Seekers of Truth
(c) his brother
(d) his wife

14. What finally happens to Vitvitskaia?
(a) She has a child out of wedlock and raises it in Russia.
(b) She marries a wealthy book dealer in Moscow.
(c) She takes ill on a journey and dies in Samara.
(d) She travels to North America and settles there.

15. What was Ekim Bey interested in?
(a) mathematics and engineering
(b) philosophy and psychology
(c) hypnotism, the human psyche and magic tricks
(d) ancient languages

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the conclusions Gurdjieff came to which he shares with the reader at the end of Chapter 8?

2. What is another conclusion that Gurdjieff came to while writing Chapter 8?

3. What finally happened to Yelov?

4. Who is Philos?

5. What does Gurdjieff do in Rome?

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