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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Zorba offer to take the place of in Madame Hortense's world?
(a) Canavaro.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Mavrandoni.
(d) Her parrot.

2. In which category does Zorba think his boss strives for with his food?
(a) Work.
(b) God.
(c) Fat and manure.
(d) Love and kindness.

3. How does Zorba live his life?
(a) He trusts that other people will show him how to live.
(b) He reads books that instruct him how to live.
(c) He lives like every day is his last.
(d) He moves about suspecting that everyone wants to hurt him.

4. In regards to food, what three categories does Zorba say that the three different types of men turn their food into?
(a) Love and kindness, manure and energy, and gluttony.
(b) Fear, love, and God.
(c) Sex, work, and fat.
(d) Fat and manure, work and good humor, and God.

5. Why does Zorba watch the widow's home?
(a) He wants to make sure the narrator is not sneaking into her house.
(b) He wants to steal from her.
(c) He wants to make sure she is not going to bed alone.
(d) He wants to protect her from Mimiko.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the narrator meets some young women on his first day in Crete, how do the girls respond?

2. How does Zorba feel about women?

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

4. Which of her lovers' names does Madame Hortense's parrot repeat?

5. When the narrator meets an old man on the trail, where does the man ask if he's headed?

Multiple Choice Questions Key

Short Answer Questions Key

1. When the narrator meets some young women on his first day in Crete, how do the girls respond?

Fearfully.

2. How does Zorba feel about women?

He does not take them seriously but enjoys them physically.

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

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

4. Which of her lovers' names does Madame Hortense's parrot repeat?

Canavaro.

5. When the narrator meets an old man on the trail, where does the man ask if he's headed?

The convent.