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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Zorba feel about women?
(a) He does not take them seriously but enjoys them physically.
(b) He feels closer to them than he does to men.
(c) He doesn't speak to them but looks constantly for a wife.
(d) He believes they are intellectually superior to men.

2. Why does Zorba travel to town in Chapter 12?
(a) To buy Madame Hortense many fine gifts.
(b) To hire a prostitute.
(c) To buy supplies for the mine.
(d) To find a new job.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator decide about the poetry he has always loved?

3. Who does the narrator receive letters from in Chapter 12?

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

5. What happens at the mine in Chapter 9?

Multiple Choice Questions Key

Short Answer Questions Key

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

Communication.

2. What does the narrator decide about the poetry he has always loved?

It is worthless and does not relate to the true human experience.

3. Who does the narrator receive letters from in Chapter 12?

His old friend and Karayannis.

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

The ruins of a Minoan city.

5. What happens at the mine in Chapter 9?

It collapses.