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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In a letter to the narrator, Zorba indicates that he has a devil living inside of him who is like Zorba in every way except what?
(a) It has warts.
(b) It refuses to grow old.
(c) It does not like romance.
(d) It loves philosophy.

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

4. What does the narrator request of Zorba when he remains in Candia for longer than expected?
(a) He requests that he double the supplies purchase.
(b) He requests that he return immediately.
(c) He asks that he never return.
(d) He asks that he bring food when he returns.

5. In Chapter 3, what is the narrator reading when Zorba asks him to come in for lunch?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Virgil.
(c) Dante.
(d) The Bible.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator depict Madame Hortense?

2. Who does the narrator see as he is walking toward the village on Easter?

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

4. When Zorba and the narrator refuse Mavrandoni's offer of hospitality, what does he say about them?

5. Which character reveals that he had a son who died at the age of three?

Multiple Choice Questions Key

Short Answer Questions Key

1. How does the narrator depict Madame Hortense?

Comically and unattractively.

2. Who does the narrator see as he is walking toward the village on Easter?

The widow.

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

Eternity.

4. When Zorba and the narrator refuse Mavrandoni's offer of hospitality, what does he say about them?

He says they are free to choose.

5. Which character reveals that he had a son who died at the age of three?

Zorba.