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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 was Ekim Bey interested in?
(a) philosophy and psychology
(b) hypnotism, the human psyche and magic tricks
(c) mathematics and engineering
(d) ancient languages

2. What were Yelov and Pogossian forever doing to each other?
(a) challenging each other's knowledge of literature
(b) forever exchanging faux insults and barbs in fun
(c) having continual fist fights
(d) having eating contests

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are Soloviev's early vices?

3. Why did Soloviev leave his home town when he was in school?

4. How was Yelov considered by his family?

5. Where does Gurdjieff sell paper flowers and what else does he sell there?

Short Essay Questions

1. From what people is Yelov descended and what characterizes these people?

2. Why does Prince Lubovedsky turn to spiritualism?

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

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

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

6. How does Karpenko die?

7. Where does Gurdjieff meet Professor Skridlov and under what circumstances?

8. What brings them together?

9. What does Gurdjieff remember about Yelov?

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

(see the answer keys)

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