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 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."

2. What does the narrator remember his friend teasing him about?
(a) Having family from Italy.
(b) Renting a lignite mine.
(c) Being too short.
(d) Being a bookworm rather than an adventurer.

3. Although the narrator remains unnamed, what does Zorba call the narrator?
(a) Sir.
(b) Bro.
(c) Captain.
(d) Boss.

4. Who attempts to cheer Zorba up following the death of Hortense?
(a) The dirge singers.
(b) The monks.
(c) Anagnosti.
(d) The festival-goers.

5. How does Zorba describe proposal and marriage?
(a) As something he has not and will never do.
(b) As rarely successful.
(c) As a blessed union.
(d) As "the trap."

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Zorba travel to town in Chapter 12?

2. The narrator disagrees with the way the old man on the mountain trail does what?

3. Why does Zorba tell the narrator not to preach equality of the sexes?

4. What language does Zorba teach the narrator in chapter 25?

5. Whose death is sought after to avenge Pavli's death?

Multiple Choice Questions Key

Short Answer Questions Key

1. Why does Zorba travel to town in Chapter 12?

To buy supplies for the mine.

2. The narrator disagrees with the way the old man on the mountain trail does what?

The old man does not treat his wife as an equal.

3. Why does Zorba tell the narrator not to preach equality of the sexes?

He says it will disrupt the island's way of life without offering solutions for making it better.

4. What language does Zorba teach the narrator in chapter 25?

Dance.

5. Whose death is sought after to avenge Pavli's death?

The widow.