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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Zorba describe God?
(a) He describes him as a crazier and wilder version of himself.
(b) He describes him as "ether."
(c) He describes him as peaceful and quiet.
(d) He likens him to the mine.

2. Who were Madame Hortense's four great loves?
(a) Four admirals from England, France, Italy, Russia.
(b) Two pilots from America and two from Germany.
(c) Four thieves from Crete.
(d) Four chefs from Italy, France, Spain, and Poland.

3. What happens at the mine in Chapter 9?
(a) A baby is abandoned there.
(b) They find record amounts of lignite.
(c) Five men suffocate to death.
(d) It collapses.

4. In Chapter 3, what is the narrator reading when Zorba asks him to come in for lunch?
(a) Dante.
(b) The Bible.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Virgil.

5. When the narrator meets some young women on his first day in Crete, how do the girls respond?
(a) With hatred.
(b) With ridicule.
(c) Fearfully.
(d) Joyfully.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator do when Zorba displays frustration with the miners?

2. How many places does Zorba set the dinner table for on their first night on Crete?

3. While Zorba is away, who invites the narrator to visit Africa?

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

5. With what does the narrator begin to equate Buddha?

Multiple Choice Questions Key

Short Answer Questions Key

1. What does the narrator do when Zorba displays frustration with the miners?

He calls a lunch break.

2. How many places does Zorba set the dinner table for on their first night on Crete?

3

3. While Zorba is away, who invites the narrator to visit Africa?

Karayannis.

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

The ruins of a Minoan city.

5. With what does the narrator begin to equate Buddha?

The Void and the end of civilization.