This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the primary message in the book that the narrator is reading?
(a) It offers instruction on running a mine.
(b) It emphasizes the virtue of possessing nothing.
(c) It exhibits the excellence of true love.
(d) It makes an example of the inefficiency of bookworms.

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

4. What act has Zorba performed that symbolizes the connection between freedom and manliness?
(a) He brutally killed hundreds of people in the revolution.
(b) He cut part of his ear off because it was larger than the other.
(c) He carried everyone's bags onto the ship.
(d) He cut part of his finger off because it got in the way of his pottery.

5. Why does Zorba say he removed the body part?
(a) It was too big.
(b) It hurt constantly.
(c) It was strangely colored.
(d) It got in the way of his pottery.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Zorba offer to take the place of in Madame Hortense's world?

2. Who is the second person to offer the narrator and Zorba lodging in Crete?

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

4. What does the narrator do on his first morning in Crete?

5. What are Zorba's beliefs about the existence of God?

Multiple Choice Questions Key

Short Answer Questions Key

1. Who does Zorba offer to take the place of in Madame Hortense's world?

Canavaro.

2. Who is the second person to offer the narrator and Zorba lodging in Crete?

The village elder.

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

Canavaro.

4. What does the narrator do on his first morning in Crete?

He takes a stroll through the countryside.

5. What are Zorba's beliefs about the existence of God?

He does not personally believe in God but believes religion is essential to civilization.