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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Yelov view his mother?
(a) He blamed her for his later failures.
(b) He feared her hot temper.
(c) He cherished very tender feelings for her.
(d) He was indifferent toward her.

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

3. 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 wanted to experience adventures.
(d) He was seeking answers to esoteric questions.

4. What did the group do when they reached Bagdad?
(a) They all went to Russia.
(b) They resumed their trip toward the Persian Gulf.
(c) After staying a month, they all went in different directions.
(d) They all decided to go to Egypt.

5. What did Ekim Bey and Gurdjieff get permission to do from the police in Old Tashkent ?
(a) to advertise on posters throughout the town.
(b) to hold healing services in a Mosque
(c) to sell religious relics in the outdoor marketplace
(d) to hold seances in the town hall

6. With whom is Gurdjieff reunited at the monastery and what do they do together?
(a) with Prince Lubovesky and they watch a sacred dance
(b) with Pogossian and they visit the waterfall daily
(c) with Ekim Bey and they collaborate on a book.
(d) with Vitvitskaia and they fall in love.

7. What was Yelov's physical appearance?
(a) He was short, thick-set, dark and hairy
(b) He was large, big-boned and fair-skinned
(c) He was small, thin and sickly-looking
(d) He was tall, thin and intellectual-looking

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

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

10. How old was the girl whom Gurdjieff and Karpenko fell in love with?
(a) 13
(b) 20
(c) 16
(d) 19

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

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

13. 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) They waited at the telegraph office for money to arrive
(d) Bey posed as a fakir and Gurdjieff as a sword swallower.

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

15. What had Soloviev been at one time?
(a) a beggar
(b) a wealthy cattle herder
(c) a priest
(d) a post office employee

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Philos?

2. What did Gurdjieff and Karpenko decide to do in order to settle their dispute over the girl?

3. What were the Aisors called?

4. Where does Prince Lubovedsky's search take him first?

5. Why did the expedition travel towards Bagdad instead of going as previously planned to the Persian Gulf?

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