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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Professor Skridlov.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Philos?
(a) the owner of the inn where Gurdjieff is staying
(b) Gurdjieff's faithful dog
(c) Gurdjieff's brother
(d) an old dervish Gurdjieff meets in New Bukara

2. What phenomenon do Bogachevsky and his friends experiment with?
(a) disappearing rabbits
(b) divining people's names by holding their hands
(c) "table turning"--laying hands on a table and asking it questions
(d) summoning spirits from the dead using a medium

3. What was Gurdjieff doing when he first met Karpenko?
(a) He was a choir boy at the fortress cathedral.
(b) He was a craftsman in Alexandropol
(c) He was a tour guide in Egypt.
(d) He was shining shoes in Rome.

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

5. Who was Vseslavsky?
(a) an army chaplain friend of Bogchevsky
(b) Bogachevsky's brother-in-law
(c) Bogachevsky's childhood friend
(d) a fellow-countryman of Bogachevsky and an army engineer

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Krestovsky teach Gurdjieff?

2. Skidlov and Gurdjieff seek the source of what river together?

3. Where does Gurdjieff sell paper flowers and what else does he sell there?

4. What did Pogossian look like?

5. What did Pogossian's parents do for a living?

(see the answer key)

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