This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While Zorba is away, who invites the narrator to visit Africa?
(a) His soldier friend.
(b) Zorba.
(c) Karayannis.
(d) The narrator's older brother.

2. What does the narrator do on his first morning in Crete?
(a) He discusses his plans for the mine with Zorba.
(b) He reads the Bible.
(c) He takes a stroll through the countryside.
(d) He goes to the market.

3. How does Zorba feel about women?
(a) He believes they are intellectually superior to men.
(b) He does not take them seriously but enjoys them physically.
(c) He doesn't speak to them but looks constantly for a wife.
(d) He feels closer to them than he does to men.

4. What does the narrator mostly do while Zorba works in the mine?
(a) He swims in the ocean.
(b) He romances Madame Hortense.
(c) He works on his writing.
(d) He also works in the mine.

5. Who does the narrator receive letters from in Chapter 12?
(a) Karayannis and Zorba.
(b) His old friend and Karayannis.
(c) His mother and his old friend.
(d) Karayannis and his father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator do when Zorba displays frustration with the miners?

2. How does Zorba live his life?

3. Zorba tells the story of an old man who will what?

4. What is the narrator's topic of conversation with the Mother Superior?

5. The narrator disagrees with the way the old man on the mountain trail does what?

Multiple Choice Questions Key

Short Answer Questions Key

1. What does the narrator do when Zorba displays frustration with the miners?

He calls a lunch break.

2. How does Zorba live his life?

He lives like every day is his last.

3. Zorba tells the story of an old man who will what?

Never die.

4. What is the narrator's topic of conversation with the Mother Superior?

Eternity.

5. The narrator disagrees with the way the old man on the mountain trail does what?

The old man does not treat his wife as an equal.