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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 Gurdjieff doing in Alexandropol when Karpenko stopped off to see him?
(a) studying to be a hypnotist
(b) studying spiritualism
(c) studying ancient languages
(d) studying the influence of vibrations on living things

2. Where does Prince Lubovedsky's search take him first?
(a) to the Gobi desert
(b) to Alexandropol
(c) to Egypt
(d) to Kars

3. What is one of the conclusions Gurdjieff came to which he shares with the reader at the end of Chapter 8?
(a) he liked living in Kars the best
(b) Europians are superior to Asians
(c) none of his many friends have the answers to his questions
(d) no one in Europe knows or has any idea about Asia

4. What do Gurdjieff and Skridlov do to be accepted in Bukara where Europeans are hated?
(a) They take lots of money to bribe people
(b) They decide to disguise themselves as whirling dervishes
(c) They decide to convert to Islam
(d) They grow beards in order to pose as holy men

5. What did Gurdjieff and Ekim Bey do first when they ran out of money?
(a) They became beggars.
(b) They prayed for a miracle.
(c) They got jobs and waiters.
(d) They sent for money to be wired to them.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Gurdjieff meet Abram Yelov?

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

3. How did Gurdjieff meet Professor Skridlov?

4. Whom does Skridlov visit in Russia?

5. What does Gurdjieff agree to do for Prince Lubovedsky?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Karpenko die?

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

3. What brings them together?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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