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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What are Skirlov and Gurdjieff invited to visit by the man they meet in Afridis who speaks Greek with Gurdjieff?
(a) the isle of Patmos where St. John had a revelation
(b) a secret school for whirling dervishes
(c) a monastery run by the World Brotherhood deep in Asia
(d) an old Armenian shrine

4. What did Gurdjieff and Yelov have in common?
(a) an interest in women
(b) an interest in medicine
(c) an interest in becoming wealthy
(d) an interest in books and philosophical questions

5. What was Gurdjieff doing when he first met Karpenko?
(a) He was a craftsman in Alexandropol
(b) He was a choir boy at the fortress cathedral.
(c) He was a tour guide in Egypt.
(d) He was shining shoes in Rome.

6. Where does Prince Lubovedsky's search take him first?
(a) to Kars
(b) to the Gobi desert
(c) to Egypt
(d) to Alexandropol

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

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

9. What are Soloviev's early vices?
(a) gluttony and cruelty to animals
(b) lying and cheating in school
(c) drinking and stealing from his mother
(d) street fighting and gambling

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

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

12. How did Gurdjieff and Karpenko meet the girl they both fell in love with?
(a) She was the daughter of their tutor.
(b) She sold flowers in the marketplace.
(c) She was the sister of one of their friends.
(d) She attended the same school they attended.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What caused Yelov to lose his wealth as a book and stationery store owner?

2. Why did Gurdjieff stay in Ekim Bey's house?

3. How does Skirdlov describe himself as he sits on mountaintop at the end of Chapter 10?

4. How and where did Karpenko meet an untimely death?

5. What does Gurdjieff do in Rome?

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