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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Skidlov and Gurdjieff seek the source of what river together?
(a) the Euphrates
(b) the Volga
(c) the Tiber
(d) the Nile

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

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

6. Who is Philos?
(a) Gurdjieff's brother
(b) an old dervish Gurdjieff meets in New Bukara
(c) Gurdjieff's faithful dog
(d) the owner of the inn where Gurdjieff is staying

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

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

9. What do the two travelers do after their thirst for knowledge is satisfied ?
(a) They fall into a deep depression.
(b) They decide to become monks.
(c) They return to Russia and their families
(d) They start a school to teach what they have learned.

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

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

12. 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 seances in the town hall
(c) to sell religious relics in the outdoor marketplace
(d) to hold healing services in a Mosque

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

14. 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

15. 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 tour guide in Egypt.
(d) He was a craftsman in Alexandropol

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Seekers of Truth do at the end of the summer that Gurdjieff spent in Alexandropol?

2. What happened to Ekim Bey in Suram?

3. What town, inaccessible to Europeans, do Skridlov and Gurdjieff want to go to after visiting Bukara?

4. What is Vitvitskaia's story?

5. What did Ekim Bey write in a later letter to Gurdjieff?

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