1. What is the primary message in the book that the narrator is reading?
(a) It exhibits the excellence of true love.
(b) It emphasizes the virtue of possessing nothing.
(c) It offers instruction on running a mine.
(d) It makes an example of the inefficiency of bookworms.

2. 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.

3. What part of the narrator's friendship with his absent friend is he sad about?
(a) The two got into a fist fight before his friend left.
(b) The two argued rather than expressing love.
(c) He thinks his friend will find a new best friend.
(d) He thinks his friend hates him.

4. Under what conditions does Zorba say that Noussa left him?
(a) She eloped with a soldier.
(b) She committed suicide.
(c) She mysteriously vanished.
(d) She went back to her home village to care for her sick mother.

5. What or who does Zorba live for?
(a) Man as individual.
(b) God.
(c) Mining.
(d) Mankind.

6. What does the narrator do when Zorba displays frustration with the miners?
(a) He fires Zorba.
(b) He fires several miners.
(c) He calls a lunch break.
(d) He leaves the mine without speaking.

7. What are Zorba's beliefs about the existence of God?
(a) He is a Christian.
(b) He does not personally believe in God but believes religion is essential to civilization.
(c) He looks to Anagnosti for all of his religious questions and shares his beliefs.
(d) He believes in a higher power but not in religion.

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

9. What does the narrator's manuscript become for him?
(a) A war-like attempt to completely remove the prophet from his soul.
(b) A meditation on finding true peace.
(c) A blueprint for redesigning the mine.
(d) A guideline for feeling comfortable in the Void.

10. What does Zorba tell the narrator he should have done before going to bed the night before in chapter 4?
(a) Zorba tells him that he should have meditated.
(b) He tells the narrator that he should have made some work notes for the following day.
(c) He says the narrator should have told Dame Hortense how beautiful she is.
(d) He tells him he should have cleaned the house.

11. What is the name of the new friend the narrator makes at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Santuri.
(b) The Devil.
(c) Crete.
(d) Zorba.

12. What does the narrator begin doing late one restless night in Chapter 5?
(a) He makes a map of the mine.
(b) He begins the writing of his manuscript.
(c) He takes a long walk on the beach.
(d) He begins a romance with Madame Hortense.

13. What are the names of Zorba's two "half-honest" lovers?
(a) Sophia and Cecilia.
(b) Sophinka and Noussa.
(c) Madame Hortense and Anagnosti.
(d) Alexandra and Diana.

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

15. What does Zorba indicate would be the worst thing the narrator could do to Anagnosti?
(a) Cast down his religion.
(b) Hire him at the mine.
(c) Kill his children.
(d) Leave his celebration.