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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. How does Gurdjieff earn money in Constantinople?
(a) diving for coins tossed from ships
(b) telling fortunes
(c) selling Christian relics
(d) selling sausages

2. Where did Gurdjieff''s father come from?
(a) from an Egyptian family who moved to Alexandropol
(b) from a Russian family who fled from Russia during hard times
(c) from a Persian family living in Armenia
(d) from a Greek family who had fled from the Turks in Byzantium

3. What did Ekim Bey and Gurdjieff get permission to do from the police in Old Tashkent ?
(a) to advertise on posters throughout the town.
(b) to hold healing services in a Mosque
(c) to sell religious relics in the outdoor marketplace
(d) to hold seances in the town hall

4. What was Gurdjieff's youngest niece supposed to do for him?
(a) fan him with a palm fan while he was working in the heat.
(b) see that his Arabian coffee did not become cold in the cup
(c) bring him cold drinks
(d) sing to him while he sat under the trees

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What state did Gurdjieff experience, according to Mullah Nassr Eddin's words, after many sleepless nights?

3. What did Gurdjieff dream of specializing in?

4. In what town did the first of the ashokh contests which Gurdjieff witnessed take place?

5. What finally brought Gurdjieff and Karpenko together?

(see the answer key)

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