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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes the Easter celebration to abruptly stop?
(a) A small child is killed.
(b) The widow enters the church.
(c) The monks flood into the church.
(d) A man starts screaming.

2. What are Zorba's beliefs about the existence of God?
(a) He believes in a higher power but not in religion.
(b) He looks to Anagnosti for all of his religious questions and shares his beliefs.
(c) He does not personally believe in God but believes religion is essential to civilization.
(d) He is a Christian.

3. Why does the narrator feel like he can forget about the Enlightened One?
(a) He has finished his Buddha Manuscript.
(b) His sexual relationship is more fulfilling that meditation.
(c) Mining is all that he cares about now.
(d) He has become engrossed with the physical world.

4. What does the narrator remember his grandfather doing?
(a) He had many lovers.
(b) He demanded stories from his guests.
(c) He started a mining business.
(d) He sailed around the world.

5. What does Zorba consider the act of dancing to be?
(a) Communication.
(b) Entertainment.
(c) Sexual.
(d) Competition.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Zorba suggest that the narrator should burn his library?

2. How does Zorba describe God?

3. What does the narrator's manuscript become for him?

4. What or who does Zorba live for?

5. Who does the narrator hire to help him mine lignite on the island?

Multiple Choice Questions Key

Short Answer Questions Key

1. Why does Zorba suggest that the narrator should burn his library?

Because his books don't celebrate nature enough.

2. How does Zorba describe God?

He describes him as a crazier and wilder version of himself.

3. What does the narrator's manuscript become for him?

A war-like attempt to completely remove the prophet from his soul.

4. What or who does Zorba live for?

Man as individual.

5. Who does the narrator hire to help him mine lignite on the island?

Zorba.