This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has historically impacted Crete and the Cretan people more than anything else?
(a) Religious ceremonies.
(b) Movie theaters.
(c) Wars.
(d) Carnivals.

2. 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 insists that it's sinful to mark one's preference for certain foods.
(c) The old man smokes too many cigarettes.
(d) The old man does not treat his wife as an equal.

3. What is the great plan that Zorba reveals to the narrator in Chapter 6?
(a) He plans to blast a new entrance to the mine.
(b) He wants to build a ship so that he and his boss can sail around the world.
(c) He plans to marry Madame Hortense for her great wealth.
(d) He wants to develop a cable system for transporting timber.

4. Who were Madame Hortense's four great loves?
(a) Four thieves from Crete.
(b) Four admirals from England, France, Italy, Russia.
(c) Four chefs from Italy, France, Spain, and Poland.
(d) Two pilots from America and two from Germany.

5. How does Zorba describe God?
(a) He describes him as peaceful and quiet.
(b) He describes him as a crazier and wilder version of himself.
(c) He describes him as "ether."
(d) He likens him to the mine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator do when Zorba displays frustration with the miners?

2. Who does Zorba offer to take the place of in Madame Hortense's world?

3. With what does the narrator begin to equate Buddha?

4. What is the narrator's topic of conversation with the Mother Superior?

5. What does the narrator's manuscript become for him?

Multiple Choice Questions Key

Short Answer Questions Key

1. What does the narrator do when Zorba displays frustration with the miners?

He calls a lunch break.

2. Who does Zorba offer to take the place of in Madame Hortense's world?

Canavaro.

3. With what does the narrator begin to equate Buddha?

The Void and the end of civilization.

4. What is the narrator's topic of conversation with the Mother Superior?

Eternity.

5. What does the narrator's manuscript become for him?

A war-like attempt to completely remove the prophet from his soul.