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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where do Gurdjieff and Ekim Bey first meet?
(a) in Alexandropol
(b) In Constantinople
(c) In Egypt
(d) n Kars

3. 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 puny mortal
(c) as a devote mystic
(d) as an hysterical woman

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

5. What were the Aisors called?
(a) gypsies
(b) the lost people of Ur
(c) peasants
(d) "stealers of crosses"

6. Upon Yelov's suggestion what scheme did Gurdjieff devise for making a lot of money?
(a) He learned secret recipes and sold them to restaurants
(b) He performed magic tricks
(c) He sold old maps for high prices, saying they were rare
(d) He slyly learned from an Italian how to make plaster casts

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

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

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

10. Where do Gurdjieff and Soloviev travel together?
(a) to Egypt.
(b) to an ancient monastery in the heart of Asia.
(c) to Russia
(d) to the ruins near Alexandropol

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

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

13. What did Yelov have a great talent for?
(a) making speeches
(b) doing magic tricks
(c) learning languages
(d) writing poetry

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

15. Why does Prince Lubovedsky turn to spiritualism?
(a) A fortune teller tells him he should.
(b) His whole family is interested in spiritualism.
(c) He wants to become a medium
(d) his young wife dies in childbirth and he wants to contact her

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Gurdjieff doing in Alexandropol when Karpenko stopped off to see him?

3. What does Gurdjieff learn from the dervish?

4. Where does Gurdjieff sell paper flowers and what else does he sell there?

5. What had Soloviev been at one time?

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