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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What exclamation does the first chapter conclude with?
(a) "Heaven and Hell!"
(b) "Jesus and Satan!"
(c) "Monks and Demons!"
(d) "God and the Devil!"

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

3. Who does the narrator receive letters from in Chapter 12?
(a) Karayannis and Zorba.
(b) His old friend and Karayannis.
(c) His mother and his old friend.
(d) Karayannis and his father.

4. In regards to food, what three categories does Zorba say that the three different types of men turn their food into?
(a) Fear, love, and God.
(b) Love and kindness, manure and energy, and gluttony.
(c) Fat and manure, work and good humor, and God.
(d) Sex, work, and fat.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Zorba live his life?

2. What does the narrator remember his grandfather doing?

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

4. How does the narrator depict Madame Hortense?

5. What painting does Zorba present to Madame Hortense?

Multiple Choice Questions Key

Short Answer Questions Key

1. How does Zorba live his life?

He lives like every day is his last.

2. What does the narrator remember his grandfather doing?

He demanded stories from his guests.

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

Dame Hortense.

4. How does the narrator depict Madame Hortense?

Comically and unattractively.

5. What painting does Zorba present to Madame Hortense?

A painting of her as a siren leading battleships.