This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Zorba feel about women?
(a) He feels closer to them than he does to men.
(b) He doesn't speak to them but looks constantly for a wife.
(c) He believes they are intellectually superior to men.
(d) He does not take them seriously but enjoys them physically.

2. In a letter to his friend, what does the narrator say his friend inspired him to do?
(a) Go to university.
(b) Pursue a life of physical action.
(c) Join a circus.
(d) Get married.

3. Why does Zorba travel to town in Chapter 12?
(a) To hire a prostitute.
(b) To buy Madame Hortense many fine gifts.
(c) To buy supplies for the mine.
(d) To find a new job.

4. What act has Zorba performed that symbolizes the connection between freedom and manliness?
(a) He brutally killed hundreds of people in the revolution.
(b) He carried everyone's bags onto the ship.
(c) He cut part of his ear off because it was larger than the other.
(d) He cut part of his finger off because it got in the way of his pottery.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When the narrator meets an old man on the trail, where does the man ask if he's headed?

2. Why does the narrator say that the sexual organs may get in the way of freedom?

3. While Zorba and the narrator are in the shop, who runs past the window?

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

5. What gift does Madame Hortense present to Zorba when he returns from the monastery?

Multiple Choice Questions Key

Short Answer Questions Key

1. When the narrator meets an old man on the trail, where does the man ask if he's headed?

The convent.

2. Why does the narrator say that the sexual organs may get in the way of freedom?

He says that being promiscuous can keep a man from going to heaven.

3. While Zorba and the narrator are in the shop, who runs past the window?

A beautiful widow.

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

Never die.

5. What gift does Madame Hortense present to Zorba when he returns from the monastery?

A pair of wedding rings.