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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Where does Gurdjieff sell paper flowers and what else does he sell there?
(a) In Rome where he also sells shoes.
(b) In Alexandropol where he also sells pencil boxes.
(c) In New Bukara where he also sells dyed sparrows.
(d) In Kars where he also sells cardboard guns.

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

8. Where does Gurdjieff meet Professor Skridlov for the second time and what do they do?
(a) They meet in Thebes and they excavate a tomb together.
(b) They meet on Patmos and explore antiquities.
(c) They meet in Armenia and search for old parchments.
(d) THey meet in Russia and discuss their travels.

9. What did Gurdjieff learn from Father Giovanni?
(a) to be celibate
(b) to meditate daily
(c) to seek material riches above all else
(d) to give up egoism and seek a higher spiritual meaning in life

10. How does Gurdjieff earn money in Constantinople?
(a) selling sausages
(b) telling fortunes
(c) selling Christian relics
(d) diving for coins tossed from ships

11. What did Yelov think about his father?
(a) He thought he was a petty, vain and willful man.
(b) He looked up to him and honored him
(c) He was extremely proud of his father.
(d) He loved him more than life itself

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Abram Yelov's background?

2. Whom does Skridlov visit in Russia?

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

4. What did the dervish disapprove of that Gurdjieff did?

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

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