This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the narrator loses everything, what does he find?
(a) Intense sorrow.
(b) Death.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Revolution.

2. In Chapter 3, what is the narrator reading when Zorba asks him to come in for lunch?
(a) Dante.
(b) Virgil.
(c) The Bible.
(d) Shakespeare.

3. What does the narrator begin doing late one restless night in Chapter 5?
(a) He begins a romance with Madame Hortense.
(b) He begins the writing of his manuscript.
(c) He takes a long walk on the beach.
(d) He makes a map of the mine.

4. How does Zorba say that he gets rid of intense longings?
(a) Meditation and abstinence.
(b) Ignoring the passionate thoughts.
(c) Self-moderation.
(d) Stuffing himself gluttonously with the desired thing.

5. What causes Zorba to become infuriated after Hortense's death?
(a) The narrator announces that he will leave Crete.
(b) The narrator fires him from the mine.
(c) Madame Hortense has not left him anything in her will.
(d) The narrator does not have the answers to his questions.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who waits outside for Hortense to die in order to loot her belongings?

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

3. What part of the narrator's friendship with his absent friend is he sad about?

4. What does Demetrios want to show Zorba and the narrator?

5. What does Zorba consider the act of dancing to be?

Multiple Choice Questions Key

Short Answer Questions Key

1. Who waits outside for Hortense to die in order to loot her belongings?

Dirge singers.

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

Eternity.

3. What part of the narrator's friendship with his absent friend is he sad about?

The two argued rather than expressing love.

4. What does Demetrios want to show Zorba and the narrator?

His clay nun.

5. What does Zorba consider the act of dancing to be?

Communication.