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

3. Why does the narrator feel like he can forget about the Enlightened One?
(a) His sexual relationship is more fulfilling that meditation.
(b) He has finished his Buddha Manuscript.
(c) Mining is all that he cares about now.
(d) He has become engrossed with the physical world.

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

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

6. What is the narrator's topic of conversation with the Mother Superior?
(a) Eternity.
(b) The cross.
(c) The Martyred Virgin.
(d) Blood.

7. Who does Zorba say is having a sexual relationship with his student?
(a) Buddha.
(b) Zaharia.
(c) Demetrios.
(d) Gavrili.

8. Before going to bed the night before beginning work on the railway, what does the narrator ask Zorba if he's ever done?
(a) Fathered a child.
(b) Been to Italy.
(c) Fought in a war.
(d) Killed a woman.

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

10. On what activity does the narrator try to instruct Zorba in Chapter 16?
(a) Playing the Santuri.
(b) Writing his thoughts down.
(c) Meditation.
(d) Cooking.

11. Upon his return from Candia, what does Zorba encourage the narrator to quickly get started on?
(a) Building a monastery.
(b) The timber rail project.
(c) Building a house for them to live in.
(d) Publication of his manuscript.

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

13. What gift does Mimiko deliver from the accused in Pavli's death?
(a) A bouquet of flowers.
(b) An aromatic oil.
(c) A loaf of bread.
(d) A basket of oranges.

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) Zorba weds Madame Hortense.
(d) A newborn baby is baptized.

15. What miracle do the monks come down from the mountain to share?
(a) The Holy Virgin of Revenge has killed Zaharia.
(b) The Holy Virgin of Revenge has killed an army of invaders.
(c) Zaharia has reached enlightenment.
(d) Zaharia saved a man through meditation.