This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Zorba travel to town in Chapter 12?
(a) To buy supplies for the mine.
(b) To buy Madame Hortense many fine gifts.
(c) To hire a prostitute.
(d) To find a new job.

2. What act has Zorba performed that symbolizes the connection between freedom and manliness?
(a) He cut part of his ear off because it was larger than the other.
(b) He carried everyone's bags onto the ship.
(c) He cut part of his finger off because it got in the way of his pottery.
(d) He brutally killed hundreds of people in the revolution.

3. What message does the narrator tell Madame Hortense that Zorba has sent from Candia?
(a) He says that Zorba wants to stay longer in the city.
(b) He tells her that Zorba has proposed marriage to her.
(c) He reports that Zorba has said he wants a raise.
(d) He tells her that Zorba says he is never returning.

4. What does Demetrios want to show Zorba and the narrator?
(a) His art collection.
(b) His library.
(c) His clay nun.
(d) The well.

5. What are Zorba's beliefs about the existence of God?
(a) He looks to Anagnosti for all of his religious questions and shares his beliefs.
(b) He believes in a higher power but not in religion.
(c) He is a Christian.
(d) He does not personally believe in God but believes religion is essential to civilization.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the narrator's goals at the end of Chapter 4?

2. About what does Zorba confront the miners?

3. The narrator warn Zorba that such passions may lead to the removal of what body part?

4. What good omen marks the narrator and Zorba's morning on the day work is to begin on the railway?

5. What are the names of Zorba's two "half-honest" lovers?

Multiple Choice Questions Key

Short Answer Questions Key

1. What is one of the narrator's goals at the end of Chapter 4?

He wants to forget about Buddha.

2. About what does Zorba confront the miners?

Failing to get their picks before exiting.

3. The narrator warn Zorba that such passions may lead to the removal of what body part?

The sexual organs.

4. What good omen marks the narrator and Zorba's morning on the day work is to begin on the railway?

White flowers blooming outside their window.

5. What are the names of Zorba's two "half-honest" lovers?

Sophinka and Noussa.