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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Fat and manure, work and good humor, and God.
(c) Fear, love, and God.
(d) Sex, work, and fat.

2. Zorba tells the story of an old man who will what?
(a) Never leave Crete.
(b) Cook a delicious soup.
(c) Never die.
(d) Play a musical instrument when happy.

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

4. When the narrator meets some young women on his first day in Crete, how do the girls respond?
(a) Joyfully.
(b) With hatred.
(c) With ridicule.
(d) Fearfully.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Zorba tell the narrator not to preach equality of the sexes?

3. Why does the narrator say that the sexual organs may get in the way of freedom?

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

5. What happens at the celebration in Chapter 5?

Multiple Choice Questions Key

Short Answer Questions Key

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

He takes a stroll through the countryside.

2. Why does Zorba tell the narrator not to preach equality of the sexes?

He says it will disrupt the island's way of life without offering solutions for making it better.

3. Why does the narrator say that the sexual organs may get in the way of freedom?

He says that being promiscuous can keep a man from going to heaven.

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

He begins the writing of his manuscript.

5. What happens at the celebration in Chapter 5?

The castration of pigs.