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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the narrator remember his friend teasing him about?
(a) Having family from Italy.
(b) Being too short.
(c) Renting a lignite mine.
(d) Being a bookworm rather than an adventurer.

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

4. 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.

5. Why does Zorba tell the narrator not to preach equality of the sexes?
(a) He says it will disrupt the island's way of life without offering solutions for making it better.
(b) He says that Anagnosti will kill him if he does.
(c) He says it is all lies anyway.
(d) He says that the people of Crete believe in equality of the sexes already.

Short Answer Questions

1. What or who does the narrator live for?

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

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

4. Who were Madame Hortense's four great loves?

5. What is one of the narrator's goals at the end of Chapter 4?

Multiple Choice Questions Key

Short Answer Questions Key

1. What or who does the narrator live for?

God.

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

She wanted to be serenaded.

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

In a bar.

4. Who were Madame Hortense's four great loves?

Four admirals from England, France, Italy, Russia.

5. What is one of the narrator's goals at the end of Chapter 4?

He wants to forget about Buddha.