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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Prince Yuri Lubovedsky.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Besides having an accident with a firearm, what other prediction of the fortuneteller came true about Gurdjieff?
(a) A large sore, a carbuncle, appeared on Gurdjieff's side
(b) A severe rash broke out all over Gurdjieff's body
(c) Gurdjieff fell ill with a high fever
(d) Gurdjieff came down with pneumonia.

3. What did Father Borsh think that the gratification of lust before adulthood would do to a youth?
(a) turn him into a monstrosity
(b) drive him insane
(c) make a man of him
(d) stunt his growth

4. Who was Kouzmin?
(a) a fellow member of the Essene Brotherhood
(b) Dean Bosh's friend
(c) an artillery officer and pyrotechnical expert
(d) the abbot of the chief monastery of the Essene Brotherhood

5. How did Gurdjieff and Pogossian happen to meet?
(a) .They met at the marketplace in Echmiadzin.
(b) They met at an inn where they both happened to be staying
(c) They met in a church where there had been a miracle
(d) Gurdjieff was delivering a parcel to him from his parents

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Pogossian bitten by?

2. What was Ani?

3. What was Gurdjieff's purpose in traveling to Echmiadzin?

4. How did Gurdjieff's father lose his fortune as the richest cattle owner in Armenia?

5. Why does Prince Lubovedsky turn to spiritualism?

(see the answer key)

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