This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator depict Madame Hortense?
(a) Comically and unattractively.
(b) Dangerous.
(c) Witchy.
(d) As intensely beautiful.

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

3. What is Zorba's response when the narrator asks him how many times he has been married?
(a) Three times.
(b) Four times.
(c) Twice honestly and once half-honestly.
(d) Once honestly and twice half-honestly.

4. When Zorba and the narrator refuse Mavrandoni's offer of hospitality, what does he say about them?
(a) He says they are free to choose.
(b) He calls Madame Hortense mean names.
(c) He says that he thinks they must be very hungry.
(d) He says they are ungrateful.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Zorba treat women for the most part?

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

3. What has historically impacted Crete and the Cretan people more than anything else?

4. Who do Zorba and the narrator stay with on their first night on the island?

5. What does Zorba think is the best way to run the mine?

Multiple Choice Questions Key

Short Answer Questions Key

1. How does Zorba treat women for the most part?

He is mostly very kind.

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

To buy supplies for the mine.

3. What has historically impacted Crete and the Cretan people more than anything else?

Wars.

4. Who do Zorba and the narrator stay with on their first night on the island?

Dame Hortense.

5. What does Zorba think is the best way to run the mine?

Cruel authority.