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

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

3. What does Vitvitskaia do while she stay with Prince Lubovedsky's sister?
(a) She conducts experiments on the effect of music on people
(b) She learns much about gardening
(c) She learns to make beautiful quilts
(d) She teaches Polish

4. What did Yelov have a great talent for?
(a) making speeches
(b) learning languages
(c) writing poetry
(d) doing magic tricks

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What diploma did Karpenko obtain in Russia before becoming a member of the Seekers of Truth?

2. What religion do Gurdjieff and Skridlov want to find out about?

3. What finally happens to Vitvitskaia?

4. What did Gurdjieff and Karpenko decide to do in order to settle their dispute over the girl?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Yelov comment on that gives Gurdjieff an idea for making more money.

4. What is the bond between Gurdjieff and Yelov?

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

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

7. How does Karpenko die?

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

9. Whom does Gurdjieff promise the Prince to escort from Constantinople to Russia and what does he think of that person when he meets her?

10. Why does Prince Lubovedsky turn to spiritualism?

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