1. What is one of the narrator's goals at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) He wants to forget about Buddha.
(b) He wants to learn to meditate.
(c) He wants to grow his hair long.
(d) He wants to improve his vocabulary.

2. Why does Zorba tell the narrator not to preach equality of the sexes?
(a) He says it will disrupt the island's way of life without offering solutions for making it better.
(b) He says that the people of Crete believe in equality of the sexes already.
(c) He says that Anagnosti will kill him if he does.
(d) He says it is all lies anyway.

3. What does Zorba promise the narrator upon the initiation of their friendship?
(a) He promises to make him a fortune.
(b) He promises to do all of his cooking and cleaning.
(c) He promises to cook him soup and play him music.
(d) He promises to find him a wife.

4. Which of her lovers' names does Madame Hortense's parrot repeat?
(a) Johnson.
(b) Baudrillard.
(c) Nowacka.
(d) Canavaro.

5. 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 describes him as "ether."
(d) He likens him to the mine.

6. What does Zorba say that his 80 year-old grandmother wanted?
(a) She wanted the wars to end.
(b) She wanted to travel to Crete.
(c) She wanted to be serenaded.
(d) She wanted a young husband.

7. What are the names of Zorba's two "half-honest" lovers?
(a) Alexandra and Diana.
(b) Madame Hortense and Anagnosti.
(c) Sophinka and Noussa.
(d) Sophia and Cecilia.

8. With whom do the narrator and Zorba enjoy Christmas Eve dinner?
(a) Madame Hortense.
(b) The widow.
(c) Buddha.
(d) Mimiko.

9. What does the narrator's manuscript become for him?
(a) A war-like attempt to completely remove the prophet from his soul.
(b) A guideline for feeling comfortable in the Void.
(c) A blueprint for redesigning the mine.
(d) A meditation on finding true peace.

10. What exclamation does the first chapter conclude with?
(a) "God and the Devil!"
(b) "Jesus and Satan!"
(c) "Heaven and Hell!"
(d) "Monks and Demons!"

11. How does Zorba suggest that a man best get to know the world?
(a) He says that a man should try foreign foods.
(b) He says that a man should go sailing around the world.
(c) He says that a man should have relations with many women.
(d) He suggests that a man spend some time being savage and sinful.

12. What happens at the mine in Chapter 9?
(a) It collapses.
(b) Five men suffocate to death.
(c) A baby is abandoned there.
(d) They find record amounts of lignite.

13. Where is the narrator sitting and thinking at the beginning of the story?
(a) In a bar.
(b) On the beach.
(c) In his bedroom.
(d) At work.

14. Who were Madame Hortense's four great loves?
(a) Four chefs from Italy, France, Spain, and Poland.
(b) Two pilots from America and two from Germany.
(c) Four admirals from England, France, Italy, Russia.
(d) Four thieves from Crete.

15. Who takes charge when the work begins in the mine?
(a) A soldier.
(b) Zorba.
(c) The narrator's grandfather.
(d) The narrator.