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Quiz: Chapter 18 to Chapter 20
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
Directions: Circle the correct answer.
1. After rescuing Zorba from being captured, what happens to the widow in his war story?
a) She dies when Zorba sets her village on fire.
b) He marries her and is with her for several years.
c) She runs away to live in a distant village.
d) She dies in childbirth.
2. How does Zorba compare to Hortense's former lovers in her eyes?
a) He is less sexually satisfying.
b) He is not as exotic.
c) He is not as good a conversationalist.
d) He is not as handsome.
3. What does Zorba say prompted him to quit the army?
a) Seeing the orphans of a priest he killed.
b) seeing children murdered.
c) Torching a village.
d) Being trapped in a trench with dead bodies.
4. Before going to bed the night before beginning work on the railway, what does the narrator ask Zorba if he's ever done?
a) Fathered a child.
b) Fought in a war.
c) Killed a woman.
d) Been to Italy.
5. What good omen marks the narrator and Zorba's morning on the day work is to begin on the railway?
a) Children singing in the streets.
b) White flowers blooming outside their window.
c) Candles that Madame Hortense has lit.
d) A light breeze sweeping the fog away.
Short Answer Questions
Directions: Answer the question with a short answer.
1. What startles the narrator from his sleep at the monastery?
2. How do the negotiations over land between Zorba and the abbot begin?
3. What does Zorba say prompted him to quit the army?
4. What does Madame Hortense want from Zorba in Chapter 19?
5. Before going to bed the night before beginning work on the railway, what does the narrator ask Zorba if he's ever done?
Quiz Answer Key: Chapter 18 to Chapter 20
Multiple Choice Answer Key
1. a.
2. b.
3. a.
4. b.
5. b.
Short Answer Key
1. What startles the narrator from his sleep at the monastery?
A gun shot.
2. How do the negotiations over land between Zorba and the abbot begin?
The abbot tries to charge more money than agreed upon.
3. What does Zorba say prompted him to quit the army?
Seeing the orphans of a priest he killed.
4. What does Madame Hortense want from Zorba in Chapter 19?
To be married immediately.
5. Before going to bed the night before beginning work on the railway, what does the narrator ask Zorba if he's ever done?
Fought in a war.
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