This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Zorba suggest the narrator will need to become completely free?
(a) Great wealth.
(b) True love.
(c) Folly.
(d) A green stone.

2. Who publicly defends the accused and attempts to break up the mob which seeks justice for Pavli's death?
(a) Anagnosti.
(b) Mimiko.
(c) Zorba.
(d) The narrator.

3. What supposedly happens to the Martyred Virgin once every year?
(a) It cries tears of blood.
(b) It bleeds from a chiseled wound.
(c) It draws a warring army.
(d) It causes storms.

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

5. What does Zorba invite his old boss to come and see in Chapter 26?
(a) A clay nun much like the one they saw years earlier.
(b) A beautiful green stone.
(c) His newborn son.
(d) His collection of musical instruments.

6. What causes the Easter celebration to abruptly stop?
(a) The monks flood into the church.
(b) The widow enters the church.
(c) A small child is killed.
(d) A man starts screaming.

7. What does the narrator inherit from Zorba?
(a) All of Zorba's belongings.
(b) The santuri.
(c) All of Hortense's belongings.
(d) A green stone.

8. Who kills the widow and how is it done?
(a) Mavrandoni stabs her in the heart.
(b) Manolakas cuts her head off.
(c) Zorba accidentally shoots her while trying to shoot Manolakas.
(d) Mavrandoni cuts her head off.

9. The narrator disagrees with the way the old man on the mountain trail does what?
(a) The old man does not treat his wife as an equal.
(b) The old man smokes too many cigarettes.
(c) The old man talks too much.
(d) The old man insists that it's sinful to mark one's preference for certain foods.

10. What concept does the narrator come up with when formulating his ideas about death?
(a) Spirit of the body.
(b) Sacred body.
(c) Death by philosophy.
(d) Sacred awe.

11. What does the narrator say about Hortense becoming a bride?
(a) It is likely to have a negative impact on business.
(b) It takes away from her allure as a widow.
(c) It makes her more respectable.
(d) It makes her glow.

12. In his story, what does Zorba's grandfather tell the old soldier about the piece of wood he gives him?
(a) He says it's a piece of Noah's Ark.
(b) He says it's part of the True Cross.
(c) He says it is anything he believes it to be.
(d) He says it's a piece of wood from the house he was born in.

13. Why does the narrator call a doctor on Easter?
(a) Madame Hortense has grown very ill.
(b) The widow appears to be pregnant.
(c) Zorba has grown very ill.
(d) The widow has fallen from a cliff.

14. For what do the villagers gather to watch in Chapter 20?
(a) Zorba celebrates the beginning of the railway construction.
(b) The narrator holds a celebration for the mine's reopening.
(c) A newborn baby is baptized.
(d) Zorba weds Madame Hortense.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator see as he is walking toward the village on Easter?

2. When the narrator meets an old man on the trail, where does the man ask if he's headed?

3. Who does Zorba say is having a sexual relationship with his student?

4. Who claims the right to pronounce judgment on the widow regarding Pavli's death?

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

Multiple Choice Answer Key

Short Answer Key

1. Who does the narrator see as he is walking toward the village on Easter?

The widow.

2. When the narrator meets an old man on the trail, where does the man ask if he's headed?

The convent.

3. Who does Zorba say is having a sexual relationship with his student?

Demetrios.

4. Who claims the right to pronounce judgment on the widow regarding Pavli's death?

Mavrandoni.

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

The widow.