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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What did Gurdjieff and Karpenko decide to do in order to settle their dispute over the girl?
(a) give her an ultimatum of choosing one of them
(b) enter a singing contest where the winner would win her
(c) ask for her hand in marriage
(d) fight a duel

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did Gurdjieff and his friends go out of the way to visit and why?

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

3. What was Gurdjieff doing when he first met Karpenko?

4. How did the Aisors make money?

5. When did Gurdjieff meet Abram Yelov?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where and when do Gurdjieff and Karpenko meet?

2. Where does Gurdjieff meet Prince Lubovedsky and what do they have in common?

3. Where does Ekim Bey show up four years after he first meets Gurdjieff and what happens there?

4. How does Gurdjieff corner the local market in plaster casts?

5. What do Skridlov and Gurdjieff disguise themselves as and how?

6. Why does Prince Lubovedsky turn to spiritualism?

7. Whom do Gurdjieff and his friends go out of their way to see on their journey?

8. What was the main lesson Skridlov and Gurdjieff learned in the Monastery?

9. What does Gurdjieff do in Rome to make money?

10. Where does Gurdjieff meet Ekim Bey and under what circumstances?

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