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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the narrator meets some young women on his first day in Crete, how do the girls respond?
(a) With hatred.
(b) Fearfully.
(c) With ridicule.
(d) Joyfully.

2. With what does the narrator begin to equate Buddha?
(a) A new, evolved civilization.
(b) Successful mining operations.
(c) The onset of true peace.
(d) The Void and the end of civilization.

3. When Zorba and the narrator refuse Mavrandoni's offer of hospitality, what does he say about them?
(a) He says they are free to choose.
(b) He says that he thinks they must be very hungry.
(c) He says they are ungrateful.
(d) He calls Madame Hortense mean names.

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

5. The narrator disagrees with the way the old man on the mountain trail does what?
(a) The old man smokes too many cigarettes.
(b) The old man talks too much.
(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.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does Zorba confront the miners?

2. How does Zorba feel about women?

3. Zorba tells the story of an old man who will what?

4. In regards to food, what three categories does Zorba say that the three different types of men turn their food into?

5. How does Zorba describe God?

Multiple Choice Questions Key

Short Answer Questions Key

1. About what does Zorba confront the miners?

Failing to get their picks before exiting.

2. How does Zorba feel about women?

He does not take them seriously but enjoys them physically.

3. Zorba tells the story of an old man who will what?

Never die.

4. In regards to food, what three categories does Zorba say that the three different types of men turn their food into?

Fat and manure, work and good humor, and God.

5. How does Zorba describe God?

He describes him as a crazier and wilder version of himself.