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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 town, inaccessible to Europeans, do Skridlov and Gurdjieff want to go to after visiting Bukara?
(a) Kabul
(b) Kaftan
(c) Kafiristan
(d) Mecca

2. 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 sold old maps for high prices, saying they were rare
(c) He performed magic tricks
(d) He slyly learned from an Italian how to make plaster casts

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

4. What did the Seekers of Truth do at the end of the summer that Gurdjieff spent in Alexandropol?
(a) planned to join him on a trip to Egypt
(b) planned a trip to Ani, the ancient Armenian captial with him
(c) planned to join him in his experiments with vibrations
(d) threw Gurdjieff out of the group

5. What did Ekim Bey write in a later letter to Gurdjieff?
(a) He wrote that he had joined the military.
(b) He wrote that he had become a dervish.
(c) He wrote that he was traveling to Egypt .
(d) He wrote he was a physician and would like to visit Gurdjieff

Short Answer Questions

1. What proposal did Prince Lubovedsky make to Gurdjieff and his friends?

2. What did Gurdjieff and Yelov have in common?

3. Gurjieff didn't see Karpenko after the incident with the girl but when would he hear from him?

4. What is one of the conclusions Gurdjieff came to which he shares with the reader at the end of Chapter 8?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Gurdjieff meet the Prince again after two years of thinking him dead?

2. Whom does Gurdjieff promise the Prince to escort from Constantinople to Russia and what does he think of that person when he meets her?

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

4. Why was Ekim Bey's father indebted to Gurdjieff?

5. What brings them together?

6. When does Gurdjieff meet Skridlov for the second time and what happens?

7. What do Gurdjieff and his friends decide to do together?

8. What does Vitvitskaia do while she is living with the Prince's sister?

9. Where is Yelov and what is he doing when Gurdjieff meets him?

10. Why does Prince Lubovedsky turn to spiritualism?

(see the answer keys)

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