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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 3, what is the narrator reading when Zorba asks him to come in for lunch?
(a) The Bible.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Dante.
(d) Virgil.

2. What makes the narrator want the widow even more?
(a) He reads a love story.
(b) He gets a letter from a family member.
(c) He learns to mine.
(d) He has a brush with death.

3. When the narrator loses everything, what does he find?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Revolution.
(c) Intense sorrow.
(d) Death.

4. What does the narrator come across while walking on the mountain path?
(a) A human skeleton.
(b) An ancient inscribed tablet.
(c) The ruins of a Minoan city.
(d) A cave.

5. Who do Zorba and the narrator meet as they climb the mountain?
(a) Demetrios.
(b) Pavli's ghost.
(c) Zaharia.
(d) A patron saint.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator mostly do while Zorba works in the mine?

2. In Chapter 4, what does the narrator do when he first awakens?

3. To whom does the narrator's soldier friend say his greatest actions will be owed credit?

4. What incident on the beach mellows the narrator's restlessness?

5. When the narrator meets some young women on his first day in Crete, how do the girls respond?

Multiple Choice Questions Key

Short Answer Questions Key

1. What does the narrator mostly do while Zorba works in the mine?

He works on his writing.

2. In Chapter 4, what does the narrator do when he first awakens?

Smokes a pipe.

3. To whom does the narrator's soldier friend say his greatest actions will be owed credit?

Rembrandt's "Warrior."

4. What incident on the beach mellows the narrator's restlessness?

He accidentally kills a butterfly.

5. When the narrator meets some young women on his first day in Crete, how do the girls respond?

Fearfully.