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

2. What message does the narrator tell Madame Hortense that Zorba has sent from Candia?
(a) He reports that Zorba has said he wants a raise.
(b) He says that Zorba wants to stay longer in the city.
(c) He tells her that Zorba has proposed marriage to her.
(d) He tells her that Zorba says he is never returning.

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

4. Who fights the mob leader in an attempt to save the widow?
(a) Zorba.
(b) Pavli.
(c) Mavrandoni.
(d) the narrator.

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

11. What gift does Madame Hortense present to Zorba when he returns from the monastery?
(a) A small clay statue.
(b) A boat.
(c) A new pair of pants.
(d) A pair of wedding rings.

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

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

14. What does Madame Hortense want from Zorba in Chapter 19?
(a) To be married immediately.
(b) To build them a new house.
(c) To impregnate her.
(d) To support her.

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