This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Zorba's gift prompt Madame Hortense to do?
(a) Leave the room.
(b) Start crying.
(c) Talk about her love affairs.
(d) Profess her love for Zorba.

2. Who claims the right to pronounce judgment on the widow regarding Pavli's death?
(a) Manolakas.
(b) Zorba.
(c) Mavrandoni.
(d) Anagnosti.

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

4. Which of her lovers' names does Madame Hortense's parrot repeat?
(a) Nowacka.
(b) Johnson.
(c) Canavaro.
(d) Baudrillard.

5. In Chapter 11, what does the narrator do when he sees the widow?
(a) He strikes up a conversation about mining.
(b) He approaches her and kisses her hand.
(c) Nothing. He is unable to approach her.
(d) He asks her to dinner.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Zorba meet while in Candia?

2. What painting does Zorba present to Madame Hortense?

3. What story does Anagnosti tell at the celebration?

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

5. For what action is Zorba trying to make up for by his actions in Chapter 18?

Multiple Choice Questions Key

Short Answer Questions Key

1. Who does Zorba meet while in Candia?

A young woman.

2. What painting does Zorba present to Madame Hortense?

A painting of her as a siren leading battleships.

3. What story does Anagnosti tell at the celebration?

The tale of his birth.

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

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

5. For what action is Zorba trying to make up for by his actions in Chapter 18?

Spending all of the narrator's money in Candia.