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

2. What is Vitvitskaia's story?
(a) She was the girlhood friend of the prince's sister
(b) She was a belly dancer in Egypt.
(c) She was a medium whom the prince consulted.
(d) She was sold into slavery and the Prince saved her.

3. Why did Soloviev leave his home town when he was in school?
(a) He was seeking answers to esoteric questions.
(b) He wanted to experience adventures.
(c) He was running from the police.
(d) He followed a traveling circus performer named Verka

4. Where do Gurdjieff and Soloviev travel together?
(a) to the ruins near Alexandropol
(b) to an ancient monastery in the heart of Asia.
(c) to Egypt.
(d) to Russia

5. Why was Tiflis a good city for Gurdjieff 's purposes?
(a) He was able to obtain any rare book in any language.
(b) There were many ruins around the city for him to explore.
(c) There were psychics there who understood phenomena.
(d) Many seances were held by mediums in the city.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was one of Yelov's peculiar habits?

2. What does Vitvitskaia do while she stay with Prince Lubovedsky's sister?

3. What was Yelov's physical appearance?

4. What were Yelov and Pogossian forever doing to each other?

5. What do the two travelers do after their thirst for knowledge is satisfied ?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where and when do Gurdjieff and Karpenko meet?

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

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

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

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

6. Why does Prince Lubovedsky turn to spiritualism?

7. What brings them together?

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

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

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

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