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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the names of Zorba's two "half-honest" lovers?
(a) Alexandra and Diana.
(b) Sophinka and Noussa.
(c) Sophia and Cecilia.
(d) Madame Hortense and Anagnosti.

2. Who does Zorba suggest that the narrator romantically pursue?
(a) Madame Hortense.
(b) The widow.
(c) The long lost love of his life.
(d) Noussa.

3. What is the primary message in the book that the narrator is reading?
(a) It offers instruction on running a mine.
(b) It emphasizes the virtue of possessing nothing.
(c) It exhibits the excellence of true love.
(d) It makes an example of the inefficiency of bookworms.

4. What or who does the narrator live for?
(a) God.
(b) Women.
(c) Mankind.
(d) Zorba.

5. What does the narrator do when Zorba displays frustration with the miners?
(a) He calls a lunch break.
(b) He fires Zorba.
(c) He fires several miners.
(d) He leaves the mine without speaking.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Zorba say that his 80 year-old grandmother wanted?

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

3. What reason does the narrator give in his argument that Zorba should not pressure him to visit the widow?

4. What happens at the celebration in Chapter 5?

5. What does Zorba do when he hears his boss talking to the workmen?

Multiple Choice Questions Key

Short Answer Questions Key

1. What does Zorba say that his 80 year-old grandmother wanted?

She wanted to be serenaded.

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

God.

3. What reason does the narrator give in his argument that Zorba should not pressure him to visit the widow?

Acting impulsively is against his nature.

4. What happens at the celebration in Chapter 5?

The castration of pigs.

5. What does Zorba do when he hears his boss talking to the workmen?

He throws his boss out of the mine.