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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 does Gurdjieff learn from the dervish?
(a) to be chaste before marriage
(b) to breathe, eat and exercise naturally
(c) to honor one's parents
(d) not to practice hypnotism

2. When did Gurdjieff meet Abram Yelov?
(a) When he had buried himelf in reading ancient liturature in Tiflis.
(b) When he was suffering from a high fever and pneumonia
(c) When he was visiting his family
(d) When he given up his search for ancient truths

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

4. What did the dervish disapprove of that Gurdjieff did?
(a) He disapproved Gurdjieff's practice of Hatha Yoga
(b) He disapproved of Gurdjieff's clothing
(c) He disapproved of Gurdjieff's deceitfulness
(d) He disapproved of Gurdjieff's way of speaking

5. What did Gurdjieff and Yelov have in common?
(a) an interest in medicine
(b) an interest in women
(c) an interest in books and philosophical questions
(d) an interest in becoming wealthy

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Gurdjieff doing when he first met Karpenko?

2. What do Gurdjieff and Skridlov do to be accepted in Bukara where Europeans are hated?

3. Whom do Gurdjieff and Skridlov meet in Afridis?

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

5. What finally brought Gurdjieff and Karpenko together?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Where and when do Gurdjieff and Karpenko meet?

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

6. How does Karpenko die?

7. What does Gurdjieff remember about Yelov?

8. Where does Gurdjieff meet Ekim Bey and under what circumstances?

9. What brings them together?

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

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