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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What body part is Zorba missing a part of?
(a) Toe.
(b) Arm.
(c) Ear.
(d) Finger.

3. What story does Anagnosti tell at the celebration?
(a) The tale of his birth.
(b) Noah's Ark.
(c) A love story.
(d) The ancient civilization of Crete.

4. Zorba tells the narrator stories about the island. What kind of events does he describe?
(a) Rape and thievery.
(b) Wars and revolutions.
(c) Carnivals and circuses.
(d) Feasts and birthdays.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator mostly do while Zorba works in the mine?

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

3. What does Zorba say that his 80 year-old grandmother wanted?

4. Where is the narrator sitting and thinking at the beginning of the story?

5. What or who does the narrator's long-time friend live for?

Multiple Choice Questions Key

Short Answer Questions Key

1. What does the narrator mostly do while Zorba works in the mine?

He works on his writing.

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

Dame Hortense.

3. What does Zorba say that his 80 year-old grandmother wanted?

She wanted to be serenaded.

4. Where is the narrator sitting and thinking at the beginning of the story?

In a bar.

5. What or who does the narrator's long-time friend live for?

Mankind.