This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Zorba do when he hears his boss talking to the workmen?
(a) He tells his boss that they are lazy.
(b) He asks his boss to record the men's work hours.
(c) He throws his boss out of the mine.
(d) He asks his boss to get them lunch.

2. What does the narrator do on his first morning in Crete?
(a) He discusses his plans for the mine with Zorba.
(b) He reads the Bible.
(c) He takes a stroll through the countryside.
(d) He goes to the market.

3. What is one of the narrator's goals at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) He wants to forget about Buddha.
(b) He wants to grow his hair long.
(c) He wants to improve his vocabulary.
(d) He wants to learn to meditate.

4. How does Zorba live his life?
(a) He trusts that other people will show him how to live.
(b) He moves about suspecting that everyone wants to hurt him.
(c) He lives like every day is his last.
(d) He reads books that instruct him how to live.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What exclamation does the first chapter conclude with?

2. What part of the narrator's friendship with his absent friend is he sad about?

3. The narrator warn Zorba that such passions may lead to the removal of what body part?

4. What story does Anagnosti tell at the celebration?

5. What is the primary message in the book that the narrator is reading?

Multiple Choice Questions Key

Short Answer Questions Key

1. What exclamation does the first chapter conclude with?

"God and the Devil!"

2. What part of the narrator's friendship with his absent friend is he sad about?

The two argued rather than expressing love.

3. The narrator warn Zorba that such passions may lead to the removal of what body part?

The sexual organs.

4. What story does Anagnosti tell at the celebration?

The tale of his birth.

5. What is the primary message in the book that the narrator is reading?

It emphasizes the virtue of possessing nothing.