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

2. Whom does Gurdjieff meet in a billiard hall in New Bukara and what transpires?
(a) He meets Soloviev whom he saves from a beating.
(b) He meets a prostitute and goes home with her.
(c) He meets Ekim Bey who is on vacation.
(d) He meets the prince again and they play billiards

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

4. For whom is Gurdjieff working when he first meets Prince Ludbovedsky?
(a) for the English on a ship anchored at Alexandria
(b) for his father
(c) for the Russian archaeologist Skridlov
(d) for Dean Borsh

5. Why did Gurdjieff stay in Ekim Bey's house?
(a) He was visiting because he was a friend of the family
(b) He was working as tutor to Ekim's younger brother.
(c) He was a servant in the Bey household.
(d) He had become ill after diving for Bey's father's chaplet

Short Answer Questions

1. What diploma did Karpenko obtain in Russia before becoming a member of the Seekers of Truth?

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

3. When did Gurdjieff meet Karpenko?

4. Why was Tiflis a good city for Gurdjieff 's purposes?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the bond between Gurdjieff and Yelov?

4. Where and when do Gurdjieff and Karpenko meet?

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

6. Why does Prince Lubovedsky turn to spiritualism?

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

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

9. What does Ekim Bey later study that brings in money?

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

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