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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens to Zorba that he believes to be a terrible omen?
(a) He falls in love with a woman.
(b) A priest crosses his path.
(c) He loses his job at the mine.
(d) He grows interested in philosophy.

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

4. When the narrator meets an old man on the trail, where does the man ask if he's headed?
(a) The convent.
(b) The garden.
(c) The pub.
(d) The river.

5. The narrator disagrees with the way the old man on the mountain trail does what?
(a) The old man insists that it's sinful to mark one's preference for certain foods.
(b) The old man smokes too many cigarettes.
(c) The old man does not treat his wife as an equal.
(d) The old man talks too much.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which category does Zorba think his boss strives for with his food?

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

3. In Chapter 15, what does the narrator momentarily believe is his last obstacle to freedom?

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

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

Multiple Choice Questions Key

Short Answer Questions Key

1. In which category does Zorba think his boss strives for with his food?

God.

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

Canavaro.

3. In Chapter 15, what does the narrator momentarily believe is his last obstacle to freedom?

Buddha.

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

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

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

Dante.