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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What act has Zorba performed that symbolizes the connection between freedom and manliness?
(a) He brutally killed hundreds of people in the revolution.
(b) He cut part of his finger off because it got in the way of his pottery.
(c) He cut part of his ear off because it was larger than the other.
(d) He carried everyone's bags onto the ship.

4. What happens to Gavrili in the night at the monastery?
(a) He thinks he hears God speaking to him.
(b) He is murdered by his lover.
(c) He is raped.
(d) He is held hostage by invaders.

5. While Zorba is away, who invites the narrator to visit Africa?
(a) His soldier friend.
(b) Zorba.
(c) Karayannis.
(d) The narrator's older brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens at the celebration in Chapter 5?

2. How does Lola refer to Zorba?

3. Why does the narrator call a doctor on Easter?

4. In pleasing Madame Hortense, to whom does Zorba compare himself?

5. Why does Zorba travel to town in Chapter 12?

Multiple Choice Questions Key

Short Answer Questions Key

1. What happens at the celebration in Chapter 5?

The castration of pigs.

2. How does Lola refer to Zorba?

Grandad.

3. Why does the narrator call a doctor on Easter?

Madame Hortense has grown very ill.

4. In pleasing Madame Hortense, to whom does Zorba compare himself?

Zeus.

5. Why does Zorba travel to town in Chapter 12?

To buy supplies for the mine.