Zorba the Greek Test | Final Test - Easy

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 156 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Zorba the Greek Test | Final Test - Easy

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 156 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator inherit from Zorba?
(a) All of Zorba's belongings.
(b) The santuri.
(c) All of Hortense's belongings.
(d) A green stone.

2. What miracle do the monks come down from the mountain to share?
(a) The Holy Virgin of Revenge has killed an army of invaders.
(b) Zaharia has reached enlightenment.
(c) The Holy Virgin of Revenge has killed Zaharia.
(d) Zaharia saved a man through meditation.

3. What gift does Mimiko deliver from the accused in Pavli's death?
(a) A bouquet of flowers.
(b) A loaf of bread.
(c) A basket of oranges.
(d) An aromatic oil.

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

5. What supposedly happens to the Martyred Virgin once every year?
(a) It causes storms.
(b) It bleeds from a chiseled wound.
(c) It draws a warring army.
(d) It cries tears of blood.

6. What is the narrator's topic of conversation with the Mother Superior?
(a) The cross.
(b) Eternity.
(c) Blood.
(d) The Martyred Virgin.

7. Who closes Hortense's eyes when she dies?
(a) Zorba.
(b) Anagnosti.
(c) A priest.
(d) The narrator.

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

9. How does the narrator respond to the bishop's theories on religion?
(a) "Those theories may save many souls."
(b) "Those theories fall short of a true God."
(c) "Those theories would benefit from inclusion of my theory."
(d) "Those theories cannot help a man of the world."

10. Upon his return from Candia, what does Zorba encourage the narrator to quickly get started on?
(a) Building a house for them to live in.
(b) Publication of his manuscript.
(c) The timber rail project.
(d) Building a monastery.

11. Which character reveals that he had a son who died at the age of three?
(a) Mavrandoni.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Zorba.
(d) Manolakas.

12. Who waits outside for Hortense to die in order to loot her belongings?
(a) The mob.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Dirge singers.
(d) The monks.

13. Who does Zorba adopt when Hortense dies?
(a) Hortense's daughter.
(b) Dimitri.
(c) Pavli.
(d) Hortense's parrot.

14. When the narrator meets an old man on the trail, where does the man ask if he's headed?
(a) The river.
(b) The convent.
(c) The pub.
(d) The garden.

15. Who challenges Zorba to a knife fight near the widow's garden?
(a) Manolakas.
(b) Mavrandoni.
(c) Pavli's ghost.
(d) Dimitri.

Short Answer Questions

1. In pleasing Madame Hortense, to whom does Zorba compare himself?

2. What does the narrator come across while walking on the mountain path?

3. What concept does the narrator come up with when formulating his ideas about death?

4. What do the narrator and Zorba do on Easter Sunday?

5. Before going to bed the night before beginning work on the railway, what does the narrator ask Zorba if he's ever done?

Multiple Choice Answer Key

1. B
2. C
3. C
4. D
5. B
6. B
7. A
8. A
9. A
10. C
11. C
12. C
13. B
14. B
15. A

Short Answer Key

1. In pleasing Madame Hortense, to whom does Zorba compare himself?

Zeus.

2. What does the narrator come across while walking on the mountain path?

The ruins of a Minoan city.

3. What concept does the narrator come up with when formulating his ideas about death?

Sacred awe.

4. What do the narrator and Zorba do on Easter Sunday?

Make a feast for Madame Hortense.

5. Before going to bed the night before beginning work on the railway, what does the narrator ask Zorba if he's ever done?

Fought in a war.

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