This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 25.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. While Zorba and the narrator are in the shop, who runs past the window?
(a) A fellow miner.
(b) A beautiful widow.
(c) A paper boy.
(d) A juggler.

3. Who reports that a widow has lost her sheep and is offering a reward for it?
(a) Manolakus.
(b) Zorba.
(c) Mimiko.
(d) Anagnosti.

4. What does the narrator remember his grandfather doing?
(a) He demanded stories from his guests.
(b) He had many lovers.
(c) He sailed around the world.
(d) He started a mining business.

5. What does Zorba learn when he awakens from a dream in Chapter 23?
(a) Madame Hortense is dying.
(b) The narrator's old friend is taking over as foreman of the mine.
(c) The narrator is dying.
(d) The narrator has decided to leave Crete.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the narrator and Zorba do on Easter Sunday?

2. In pleasing Madame Hortense, to whom does Zorba compare himself?

3. Who waits outside for Hortense to die in order to loot her belongings?

4. Upon his return from Candia, what does Zorba encourage the narrator to quickly get started on?

5. What is the great plan that Zorba reveals to the narrator in Chapter 6?

Multiple Choice Questions Key

Short Answer Questions Key

1. What do the narrator and Zorba do on Easter Sunday?

Make a feast for Madame Hortense.

2. In pleasing Madame Hortense, to whom does Zorba compare himself?

Zeus.

3. Who waits outside for Hortense to die in order to loot her belongings?

Dirge singers.

4. Upon his return from Candia, what does Zorba encourage the narrator to quickly get started on?

The timber rail project.

5. What is the great plan that Zorba reveals to the narrator in Chapter 6?

He wants to develop a cable system for transporting timber.