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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the great plan that Zorba reveals to the narrator in Chapter 6?
(a) He wants to build a ship so that he and his boss can sail around the world.
(b) He wants to develop a cable system for transporting timber.
(c) He plans to blast a new entrance to the mine.
(d) He plans to marry Madame Hortense for her great wealth.

2. About what does Zorba confront the miners?
(a) Leaving lanterns lit inside.
(b) Taking long lunch breaks.
(c) Failing to get their picks before exiting.
(d) Not following the proper safety procedures.

3. What does the narrator come across while walking on the mountain path?
(a) The ruins of a Minoan city.
(b) An ancient inscribed tablet.
(c) A human skeleton.
(d) A cave.

4. What has historically impacted Crete and the Cretan people more than anything else?
(a) Religious ceremonies.
(b) Wars.
(c) Carnivals.
(d) Movie theaters.

5. What does Zorba consider the act of dancing to be?
(a) Communication.
(b) Sexual.
(c) Entertainment.
(d) Competition.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator do on his first morning in Crete?

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

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

4. In Chapter 3, what is the narrator reading when Zorba asks him to come in for lunch?

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

Multiple Choice Questions Key

Short Answer Questions Key

1. What does the narrator do on his first morning in Crete?

He takes a stroll through the countryside.

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

The convent.

4. In Chapter 3, what is the narrator reading when Zorba asks him to come in for lunch?

Dante.

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

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