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

2. What happens to Gavrili in the night at the monastery?
(a) He is held hostage by invaders.
(b) He is murdered by his lover.
(c) He thinks he hears God speaking to him.
(d) He is raped.

3. What does Zorba learn when he awakens from a dream in Chapter 23?
(a) The narrator has decided to leave Crete.
(b) The narrator's old friend is taking over as foreman of the mine.
(c) Madame Hortense is dying.
(d) The narrator is dying.

4. What does Zorba say prompted him to quit the army?
(a) Seeing the orphans of a priest he killed.
(b) Torching a village.
(c) seeing children murdered.
(d) Being trapped in a trench with dead bodies.

5. 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 part of the True Cross.
(b) He says it's a piece of wood from the house he was born in.
(c) He says it's a piece of Noah's Ark.
(d) He says it is anything he believes it to be.

6. How does Zorba change his appearance while in Candia?
(a) He bought new gold hoop earrings.
(b) He dyed his hair black.
(c) He grew a beard.
(d) He shaved his head.

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

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

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

10. After receiving a letter from his friend in Chapter 25, who does the narrator warn when he feels a sense of danger?
(a) Zaharia.
(b) He decides the feeling is nothing, so he does nothing and goes to sleep.
(c) His soldier friend.
(d) Zorba.

11. Who waits outside for Hortense to die in order to loot her belongings?
(a) The monks.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Dirge singers.
(d) The mob.

12. Who closes Hortense's eyes when she dies?
(a) Zorba.
(b) The narrator.
(c) A priest.
(d) Anagnosti.

13. Who does Zorba adopt when Hortense dies?
(a) Dimitri.
(b) Pavli.
(c) Hortense's parrot.
(d) Hortense's daughter.

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

15. What causes Zorba to become infuriated after Hortense's death?
(a) The narrator fires him from the mine.
(b) The narrator announces that he will leave Crete.
(c) Madame Hortense has not left him anything in her will.
(d) The narrator does not have the answers to his questions.