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

2. Why did Soloviev leave his home town when he was in school?
(a) He was seeking answers to esoteric questions.
(b) He was running from the police.
(c) He followed a traveling circus performer named Verka
(d) He wanted to experience adventures.

3. What town, inaccessible to Europeans, do Skridlov and Gurdjieff want to go to after visiting Bukara?
(a) Kabul
(b) Kaftan
(c) Mecca
(d) Kafiristan

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

5. What diploma did Karpenko obtain in Russia before becoming a member of the Seekers of Truth?
(a) a diploma in psychology
(b) a diploma as a mining engineer
(c) a diploma in mathematics
(d) a diploma in foreign languages

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did the expedition travel towards Bagdad instead of going as previously planned to the Persian Gulf?

3. What do the two travelers do after their thirst for knowledge is satisfied ?

4. What did the Seekers of Truth do at the end of the summer that Gurdjieff spent in Alexandropol?

5. Whom does Gurdjieff meet in a billiard hall in New Bukara and what transpires?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Karpenko die?

2. Where and when do Gurdjieff and Karpenko meet?

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

4. What is the bond between Gurdjieff and Yelov?

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

6. What does Vitvitskaia do while she is living with the Prince's sister?

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

8. What degree does Karpenko with?

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

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

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