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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gurdjieff agree to do for Prince Lubovedsky?
(a) He agrees to work as a translator for the prince
(b) He agrees to give up his rights to the "pre-sand" map of Egypt
(c) He agrees to hold a seance in order to contact his wife.
(d) He agrees to escort a Polish woman to Russia.

2. Who wound up with the girl, Gurdjieff or Karpenko?
(a) neither, they both lost interest in her
(b) Another one of their friends who was a neighbor of hers
(c) Karpenko because he brought her sweets and flowers
(d) Gurdjieff because he played the guitar

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

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

5. Why was Tiflis a good city for Gurdjieff 's purposes?
(a) There were psychics there who understood phenomena.
(b) He was able to obtain any rare book in any language.
(c) There were many ruins around the city for him to explore.
(d) Many seances were held by mediums in the city.

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

7. 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.

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

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

10. How does Gurdjieff's opinion about Vitvitskaia change?
(a) It changes from indifference to romantic involvement.
(b) It changes from liking her to disliking her.
(c) It changes to one of fear of her powers which he feels are evil
(d) It changes from critical judgment to praise of her virtue.

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

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

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

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

15. What did Gurdjieff and Ekim Bey do first when they ran out of money?
(a) They got jobs and waiters.
(b) They sent for money to be wired to them.
(c) They became beggars.
(d) They prayed for a miracle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Philos?

2. Upon Yelov's suggestion what scheme did Gurdjieff devise for making a lot of money?

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

4. What was one of Yelov's peculiar habits?

5. What did Gurdjieff and Yelov have in common?

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