1. What startling news does Zorba receive when he returns from Candia?
(a) He hears that a revolution is brewing on Crete.
(b) He learns that the mine will soon close.
(c) He learns that he is expected to propose to Madame Hortense.
(d) He learns that he is going to be a father.

2. How does Zorba describe proposal and marriage?
(a) As "the trap."
(b) As rarely successful.
(c) As something he has not and will never do.
(d) As a blessed union.

3. Before going to bed the night before beginning work on the railway, what does the narrator ask Zorba if he's ever done?
(a) Fought in a war.
(b) Been to Italy.
(c) Killed a woman.
(d) Fathered a child.

4. What language does Zorba teach the narrator in chapter 25?
(a) Italian.
(b) Old Greek.
(c) Dance.
(d) Latin.

5. After rescuing Zorba from being captured, what happens to the widow in his war story?
(a) She dies when Zorba sets her village on fire.
(b) She runs away to live in a distant village.
(c) He marries her and is with her for several years.
(d) She dies in childbirth.

6. For what action does Zorba grow proud of the narrator?
(a) The narrator finally pursues the widow.
(b) The narrator decides to join the army.
(c) The narrator strikes a huge load of lignite.
(d) The narrator stands up to the villagers about their sinful ways.

7. From whom must Zorba and the narrator rent land for the timber rail project?
(a) Madame Hortense.
(b) Anagnosti.
(c) The governor of Crete.
(d) Monks at the monastery.

8. Who does Zorba say is having a sexual relationship with his student?
(a) Gavrili.
(b) Zaharia.
(c) Buddha.
(d) Demetrios.

9. Who does Zaharia say inspired his mission?
(a) The Holy Spirit.
(b) The abbot.
(c) Archangel Michael.
(d) Demetrios.

10. Who do Zorba and the narrator meet as they climb the mountain?
(a) A patron saint.
(b) Pavli's ghost.
(c) Zaharia.
(d) Demetrios.

11. What do the narrator and Zorba do on Easter Sunday?
(a) Make a feast for Madame Hortense.
(b) Swim in the ocean.
(c) Make a feast for the village orphans.
(d) Walk into Candia.

12. Who claims the right to pronounce judgment on the widow regarding Pavli's death?
(a) Zorba.
(b) Manolakas.
(c) Mavrandoni.
(d) Anagnosti.

13. What is the narrator's topic of conversation with the Mother Superior?
(a) Eternity.
(b) The cross.
(c) The Martyred Virgin.
(d) Blood.

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

15. What supposedly happens to the Martyred Virgin once every year?
(a) It bleeds from a chiseled wound.
(b) It cries tears of blood.
(c) It causes storms.
(d) It draws a warring army.