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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator request of Zorba when he remains in Candia for longer than expected?
(a) He asks that he never return.
(b) He asks that he bring food when he returns.
(c) He requests that he return immediately.
(d) He requests that he double the supplies purchase.

2. In his story, what does Zorba's grandfather tell the old soldier about the piece of wood he gives him?
(a) He says it's a piece of wood from the house he was born in.
(b) He says it's part of the True Cross.
(c) He says it's a piece of Noah's Ark.
(d) He says it is anything he believes it to be.

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

4. Under what conditions does Zorba say that Noussa left him?
(a) She eloped with a soldier.
(b) She mysteriously vanished.
(c) She went back to her home village to care for her sick mother.
(d) She committed suicide.

5. What are the names of Zorba's two "half-honest" lovers?
(a) Madame Hortense and Anagnosti.
(b) Alexandra and Diana.
(c) Sophinka and Noussa.
(d) Sophia and Cecilia.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What good omen marks the narrator and Zorba's morning on the day work is to begin on the railway?

4. What does Zorba mean when he describes being married "dishonestly"?

5. How does Lola refer to Zorba?

Multiple Choice Questions Key

Short Answer Questions Key

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

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

2. 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.

3. What good omen marks the narrator and Zorba's morning on the day work is to begin on the railway?

White flowers blooming outside their window.

4. What does Zorba mean when he describes being married "dishonestly"?

Any sexual adventure.

5. How does Lola refer to Zorba?

Grandad.