This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who mocks the bishop's theories?
(a) Demetrios.
(b) Zorba.
(c) Gavrili.
(d) The narrator.

2. How does Zorba feel about women?
(a) He doesn't speak to them but looks constantly for a wife.
(b) He does not take them seriously but enjoys them physically.
(c) He believes they are intellectually superior to men.
(d) He feels closer to them than he does to men.

3. What or who does the narrator's long-time friend live for?
(a) Women.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Mankind.
(d) God.

4. Under what conditions does Zorba say that Noussa left him?
(a) She eloped with a soldier.
(b) She committed suicide.
(c) She went back to her home village to care for her sick mother.
(d) She mysteriously vanished.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What message does the narrator tell Madame Hortense that Zorba has sent from Candia?

2. How does Zorba describe proposal and marriage?

3. What body part is Zorba missing a part of?

4. What startles the narrator from his sleep at the monastery?

5. What or who does the narrator live for?

Multiple Choice Questions Key

Short Answer Questions Key

1. What message does the narrator tell Madame Hortense that Zorba has sent from Candia?

He tells her that Zorba has proposed marriage to her.

2. How does Zorba describe proposal and marriage?

As "the trap."

3. What body part is Zorba missing a part of?

Finger.

4. What startles the narrator from his sleep at the monastery?

A gun shot.

5. What or who does the narrator live for?

God.