This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Zorba say prompted him to quit the army?
(a) seeing children murdered.
(b) Being trapped in a trench with dead bodies.
(c) Seeing the orphans of a priest he killed.
(d) Torching a village.

2. What is Zorba's response when the narrator asks him how many times he has been married?
(a) Once honestly and twice half-honestly.
(b) Three times.
(c) Four times.
(d) Twice honestly and once half-honestly.

3. In his story, what does Zorba's grandfather tell the old soldier about the piece of wood he gives him?
(a) He says it's a piece of Noah's Ark.
(b) He says it is anything he believes it to be.
(c) He says it's a piece of wood from the house he was born in.
(d) He says it's part of the True Cross.

4. Under what conditions does Zorba say that Noussa left him?
(a) She mysteriously vanished.
(b) She committed suicide.
(c) She eloped with a soldier.
(d) She went back to her home village to care for her sick mother.

5. How does Lola refer to Zorba?
(a) Daddy.
(b) Uncle.
(c) Grandad.
(d) Son.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Zorba temporarily keep track of his sexual relationships?

2. Who does Zorba meet while in Candia?

3. What good omen marks the narrator and Zorba's morning on the day work is to begin on the railway?

4. In a letter to the narrator, Zorba indicates that he has a devil living inside of him who is like Zorba in every way except what?

5. After rescuing Zorba from being captured, what happens to the widow in his war story?

Multiple Choice Questions Key

Short Answer Questions Key

1. How did Zorba temporarily keep track of his sexual relationships?

He cut off a lock of each lover's hair.

2. Who does Zorba meet while in Candia?

A young woman.

3. What good omen marks the narrator and Zorba's morning on the day work is to begin on the railway?

White flowers blooming outside their window.

4. In a letter to the narrator, Zorba indicates that he has a devil living inside of him who is like Zorba in every way except what?

It refuses to grow old.

5. After rescuing Zorba from being captured, what happens to the widow in his war story?

She dies when Zorba sets her village on fire.