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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Zorba treat women for the most part?
(a) He acts as a servant to them.
(b) He is mostly very kind.
(c) He belittles them in public.
(d) He is physically abusive.

2. How does Zorba suggest that a man best get to know the world?
(a) He suggests that a man spend some time being savage and sinful.
(b) He says that a man should try foreign foods.
(c) He says that a man should have relations with many women.
(d) He says that a man should go sailing around the world.

3. The narrator warn Zorba that such passions may lead to the removal of what body part?
(a) The brain.
(b) The sexual organs.
(c) The ears.
(d) The achilles.

4. What does the narrator begin doing late one restless night in Chapter 5?
(a) He takes a long walk on the beach.
(b) He begins a romance with Madame Hortense.
(c) He begins the writing of his manuscript.
(d) He makes a map of the mine.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of her lovers' names does Madame Hortense's parrot repeat?

2. Who does the narrator receive letters from in Chapter 12?

3. What does Zorba indicate would be the worst thing the narrator could do to Anagnosti?

4. With what does the narrator begin to equate Buddha?

5. What does Zorba mean when he describes being married "dishonestly"?

Multiple Choice Questions Key

Short Answer Questions Key

1. Which of her lovers' names does Madame Hortense's parrot repeat?

Canavaro.

2. Who does the narrator receive letters from in Chapter 12?

His old friend and Karayannis.

3. What does Zorba indicate would be the worst thing the narrator could do to Anagnosti?

Cast down his religion.

4. With what does the narrator begin to equate Buddha?

The Void and the end of civilization.

5. What does Zorba mean when he describes being married "dishonestly"?

Any sexual adventure.