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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 school was Ekim Bey attending when Gurdjieff met him?
(a) a school for whirlling dervishes in Turkey
(b) a cathedral choir school in Kars
(c) a military school in Germany
(d) a school of higher eduction in Russia

2. How does Skirdlov describe himself as he sits on mountaintop at the end of Chapter 10?
(a) as an hysterical woman
(b) as a kind of God
(c) as a devote mystic
(d) as a puny mortal

3. What had Soloviev been at one time?
(a) a beggar
(b) a priest
(c) a wealthy cattle herder
(d) a post office employee

4. Where does Gurdjieff sell paper flowers and what else does he sell there?
(a) In Rome where he also sells shoes.
(b) In New Bukara where he also sells dyed sparrows.
(c) In Alexandropol where he also sells pencil boxes.
(d) In Kars where he also sells cardboard guns.

5. With whom is Gurdjieff reunited at the monastery and what do they do together?
(a) with Vitvitskaia and they fall in love.
(b) with Ekim Bey and they collaborate on a book.
(c) with Prince Lubovesky and they watch a sacred dance
(d) with Pogossian and they visit the waterfall daily

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Prince Lubovedsky's search take him first?

2. What did Yelov think about his father?

3. What was Yelov's physical appearance?

4. What did Yelov have a great talent for?

5. Whom do Gurdjieff and Skridlov meet in Afridis?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What brings them together?

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

5. Why does Prince Lubovedsky turn to spiritualism?

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

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

8. Where does Gurdjieff meet Prince Lubovedsky and what do they have in common?

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

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

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