This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the second person to offer the narrator and Zorba lodging in Crete?
(a) The village elder.
(b) The monks.
(c) The local baker.
(d) The pharmacist.

2. How many places does Zorba set the dinner table for on their first night on Crete?
(a) 1
(b) 3
(c) 4
(d) 2

3. What is the ultimate physical experience for Zorba?
(a) Mining.
(b) Going to war.
(c) Sex.
(d) Playing a musical instrument.

4. In regards to food, what three categories does Zorba say that the three different types of men turn their food into?
(a) Love and kindness, manure and energy, and gluttony.
(b) Fear, love, and God.
(c) Sex, work, and fat.
(d) Fat and manure, work and good humor, and God.

5. The narrator warn Zorba that such passions may lead to the removal of what body part?
(a) The brain.
(b) The ears.
(c) The achilles.
(d) The sexual organs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator remember his grandfather doing?

2. How does Zorba feel about women?

3. What is the name of the new friend the narrator makes at the beginning of the novel?

4. Who do Zorba and the narrator stay with on their first night on the island?

5. What has historically impacted Crete and the Cretan people more than anything else?

Multiple Choice Questions Key

Short Answer Questions Key

1. What does the narrator remember his grandfather doing?

He demanded stories from his guests.

2. How does Zorba feel about women?

He does not take them seriously but enjoys them physically.

3. What is the name of the new friend the narrator makes at the beginning of the novel?

Zorba.

4. Who do Zorba and the narrator stay with on their first night on the island?

Dame Hortense.

5. What has historically impacted Crete and the Cretan people more than anything else?

Wars.