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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Gurdjieff and Ekim Bey first meet?

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

3. What was Yelov's physical appearance?

4. What was Ekim Bey interested in?

5. What is another conclusion that Gurdjieff came to while writing Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Gurdjieff do in Rome to make money?

3. What does Gurdjieff remember about Yelov?

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

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

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

7. What is the bond between Gurdjieff and Yelov?

8. What degree does Karpenko with?

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

10. Where is Yelov and what is he doing when Gurdjieff meets him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) How do Gurdjieff and Pogossian get passage on a ship to Egypt from the town of Smyrna (modern Izamr in Turkey)?

2) What does Pogossian decide to do when he and Gurdjieff arrive in the port of Alexandria, Egypt?

3) What does Gurdjieff decide to do in Egypt? What two men who become important in his life does he meet in Cairo? Under what circumstances?

4) Write on one of the three topics.

Essay Topic 2

1) Describe prince Lubovedsky, What event makes him interested in spiritualism?

2) Where does Gurdjieff meet prince Lubovedsky? What possession do they have in common? Are they the same age? If not, is the prince older or younger and by how many years?

3) Who is Vitvitskaia? Describe her story briefly. What does prince Lubovedsky ask Gurdjieff to do for Vitvitskaia?

4) Choose one of the three topics and write about it.

Essay Topic 3

1) What are some of the devices the Seeker of the Truth comes up with in order to cross the Gobi desert?

2) Where does Soloviev die and how?

3) Who is Ekim Bey, where does Gurdjieff meet him?

4) Choose one of the three topics and write on it.

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