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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Before going to bed the night before beginning work on the railway, what does the narrator ask Zorba if he's ever done?
(a) Been to Italy.
(b) Killed a woman.
(c) Fathered a child.
(d) Fought in a war.

2. For what do the villagers gather to watch in Chapter 20?
(a) Zorba celebrates the beginning of the railway construction.
(b) A newborn baby is baptized.
(c) Zorba weds Madame Hortense.
(d) The narrator holds a celebration for the mine's reopening.

3. Why does Zorba begin to feel restless and depressed while in Candia?
(a) He has fallen in love.
(b) He is going to be a father.
(c) He has suddenly become afraid of mining.
(d) He realizes he's aging.

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

5. In Chapter 13, Zorba demonstrates his dedication to what?
(a) The narrator.
(b) His immediate passions.
(c) His "honest" wife.
(d) Madame Hortense.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the names of Zorba's two "half-honest" lovers?

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

3. 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?

4. What is Zorba's response when the narrator asks him how many times he has been married?

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. What are the names of Zorba's two "half-honest" lovers?

Sophinka and Noussa.

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

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

3. 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.

4. What is Zorba's response when the narrator asks him how many times he has been married?

Once honestly and twice half-honestly.

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.