1. 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.

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

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

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

5. 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.

6. Who does the narrator see as he is walking toward the village on Easter?
(a) Buddha.
(b) Madame Hortense.
(c) The widow.
(d) Zorba.

7. What does the narrator promise to binge on so that he no longer desires it?
(a) Women.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) Food.
(d) Books.

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

9. After sleeping with the widow, what does the narrator realize?
(a) "The flesh is language for the soul."
(b) "The soul is flesh as well."
(c) "The soul is a gem that the flesh will never uncover."
(d) "The soul is to be treasured much more than the flesh."

10. In Chapter 16,what type of power does the narrator attempt to describe?
(a) The power of the rail system.
(b) The power of the mind concentrated on one thing.
(c) The power of the human body.
(d) The power of a sexual relationship.

11. What startles the narrator from his sleep at the monastery?
(a) A loud argument.
(b) Singing.
(c) A woman's screams.
(d) A gun shot.

12. What happens when the first log is tested on the new railway?
(a) The whole structure shakes and the log is destroyed along the way.
(b) The structure is sound, and the log reaches its destination.
(c) It rail system works well but is in need of a few minor adjustments.
(d) The structure shakes unsteadily, but the log makes it all the way.

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

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

15. Who challenges Zorba to a knife fight near the widow's garden?
(a) Pavli's ghost.
(b) Dimitri.
(c) Manolakas.
(d) Mavrandoni.