This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 3, what is the narrator reading when Zorba asks him to come in for lunch?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Dante.
(c) The Bible.
(d) Virgil.

2. What does Zorba think is the best way to run the mine?
(a) Volunteer work.
(b) Bonus awards.
(c) Cruel authority.
(d) A voting system.

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

4. What does Zorba promise the narrator upon the initiation of their friendship?
(a) He promises to find him a wife.
(b) He promises to cook him soup and play him music.
(c) He promises to do all of his cooking and cleaning.
(d) He promises to make him a fortune.

5. What part of the narrator's friendship with his absent friend is he sad about?
(a) He thinks his friend will find a new best friend.
(b) The two got into a fist fight before his friend left.
(c) He thinks his friend hates him.
(d) The two argued rather than expressing love.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When Zorba and the narrator refuse Mavrandoni's offer of hospitality, what does he say about them?

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

5. The narrator warn Zorba that such passions may lead to the removal of what body part?

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

In a bar.

3. When Zorba and the narrator refuse Mavrandoni's offer of hospitality, what does he say about them?

He says they are free to choose.

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

Canavaro.

5. The narrator warn Zorba that such passions may lead to the removal of what body part?

The sexual organs.