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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Zorba indicate would be the worst thing the narrator could do to Anagnosti?
(a) Hire him at the mine.
(b) Leave his celebration.
(c) Cast down his religion.
(d) Kill his children.

3. How does Zorba describe God?
(a) He describes him as a crazier and wilder version of himself.
(b) He describes him as peaceful and quiet.
(c) He likens him to the mine.
(d) He describes him as "ether."

4. What is the statue of Our Lady of Revenge notorious for?
(a) Killing all of Crete's thieves.
(b) Killing greedy landowners.
(c) Killing a group of sinful monks.
(d) Killing an Algerian army.

5. What does Zorba consider the act of dancing to be?
(a) Sexual.
(b) Entertainment.
(c) Competition.
(d) Communication.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes the narrator want the widow even more?

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

3. What is the primary message in the book that the narrator is reading?

4. With whom do the narrator and Zorba enjoy Christmas Eve dinner?

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

Multiple Choice Questions Key

Short Answer Questions Key

1. What makes the narrator want the widow even more?

He has a brush with death.

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

He wants to forget about Buddha.

3. What is the primary message in the book that the narrator is reading?

It emphasizes the virtue of possessing nothing.

4. With whom do the narrator and Zorba enjoy Christmas Eve dinner?

Madame Hortense.

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

God.