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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. Upon Yelov's suggestion what scheme did Gurdjieff devise for making a lot of money?
(a) He slyly learned from an Italian how to make plaster casts
(b) He learned secret recipes and sold them to restaurants
(c) He performed magic tricks
(d) He sold old maps for high prices, saying they were rare

2. What was Yelov's physical appearance?
(a) He was large, big-boned and fair-skinned
(b) He was short, thick-set, dark and hairy
(c) He was tall, thin and intellectual-looking
(d) He was small, thin and sickly-looking

3. What was one of Yelov's peculiar habits?
(a) hitching up his trousers
(b) humming constantly
(c) reciting ancient Greek poems to everyone he met
(d) twitching his ears

4. What religion do Gurdjieff and Skridlov want to find out about?
(a) Protestantism
(b) Catholicism
(c) Islam
(d) Hinduism

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom do Gurdjieff and Skridlov meet in Afridis?

2. How did Gurdjieff meet Abram Yelov?

3. What are Soloviev's early vices?

4. How did Gurdjieff and Karpenko meet the girl they both fell in love with?

5. Skidlov and Gurdjieff seek the source of what river together?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Gurdjieff remember about Yelov?

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

4. What is the bond between Gurdjieff and Yelov?

5. What brings them together?

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

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

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

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