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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

3. What does Zorba promise the narrator upon the initiation of their friendship?
(a) He promises to do all of his cooking and cleaning.
(b) He promises to find him a wife.
(c) He promises to cook him soup and play him music.
(d) He promises to make him a fortune.

4. Who does the narrator hire to help him mine lignite on the island?
(a) Santuri.
(b) His best friend.
(c) Crete.
(d) Zorba.

5. When Zorba and the narrator refuse Mavrandoni's offer of hospitality, what does he say about them?
(a) He says they are ungrateful.
(b) He says they are free to choose.
(c) He calls Madame Hortense mean names.
(d) He says that he thinks they must be very hungry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What body part is Zorba missing a part of?

2. What does the narrator begin doing late one restless night in Chapter 5?

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

4. How did Zorba temporarily keep track of his sexual relationships?

5. Which of her lovers' names does Madame Hortense's parrot repeat?

Multiple Choice Questions Key

Short Answer Questions Key

1. What body part is Zorba missing a part of?

Finger.

2. What does the narrator begin doing late one restless night in Chapter 5?

He begins the writing of his manuscript.

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

It emphasizes the virtue of possessing nothing.

4. How did Zorba temporarily keep track of his sexual relationships?

He cut off a lock of each lover's hair.

5. Which of her lovers' names does Madame Hortense's parrot repeat?

Canavaro.