2. Why does Pavli commit suicide?
(a) He felt he was not talented enough to please his father.
(b) He was in love with someone not in love with him.
(c) He was fired from the mine.
(d) He could not understand the nature of God.

3. What good omen marks the narrator and Zorba's morning on the day work is to begin on the railway?
(a) White flowers blooming outside their window.
(b) Candles that Madame Hortense has lit.
(c) A light breeze sweeping the fog away.
(d) Children singing in the streets.

4. How do the negotiations over land between Zorba and the abbot begin?
(a) The abbot tries to charge more money than agreed upon.
(b) They agree completely to the original negotiation.
(c) Zorba insists that they pay more.
(d) The abbot charges a lesser amount to prove his devotion to a higher power.

5. What startling news does Zorba receive when he returns from Candia?
(a) He learns that the mine will soon close.
(b) He hears that a revolution is brewing on Crete.
(c) He learns that he is expected to propose to Madame Hortense.
(d) He learns that he is going to be a father.

6. When he arrives in Candia, what news does the narrator receive?
(a) His family is being held hostage.
(b) His friend Stavridaki has died.
(c) A new revolution has begun.
(d) The widow was pregnant with his child when she died.

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

8. Who does Zorba claim was Hortense's greatest lover?
(a) A Spanish admiral.
(b) Zorba.
(c) Canavaro.
(d) Pavli.

9. In pleasing Madame Hortense, to whom does Zorba compare himself?
(a) A monk.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Odysseus.
(d) Zeus.

10. After rescuing Zorba from being captured, what happens to the widow in his war story?
(a) He marries her and is with her for several years.
(b) She runs away to live in a distant village.
(c) She dies in childbirth.
(d) She dies when Zorba sets her village on fire.

11. When the narrator meets an old man on the trail, where does the man ask if he's headed?
(a) The convent.
(b) The garden.
(c) The pub.
(d) The river.

12. When she dies, who brings the officials to inventory Madame Hortense's belongings?
(a) Manolakas.
(b) Anagnosti.
(c) Zorba.
(d) Mavrandoni.

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

14. What language does Zorba teach the narrator in chapter 25?
(a) Italian.
(b) Old Greek.
(c) Latin.
(d) Dance.

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