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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who takes charge when the work begins in the mine?
(a) A soldier.
(b) Zorba.
(c) The narrator.
(d) The narrator's grandfather.

3. Where is the narrator sitting and thinking at the beginning of the story?
(a) On the beach.
(b) At work.
(c) In his bedroom.
(d) In a bar.

4. What does Zorba say that his 80 year-old grandmother wanted?
(a) She wanted a young husband.
(b) She wanted the wars to end.
(c) She wanted to be serenaded.
(d) She wanted to travel to Crete.

5. What is the narrator's second goal at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) He wants to be more grounded in the physical world of men.
(b) He wants to become an excellent cook.
(c) He wants to learn to play a musical instrument.
(d) He wants to find a lover.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has historically impacted Crete and the Cretan people more than anything else?

2. In Chapter 3, what is the narrator reading when Zorba asks him to come in for lunch?

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

4. What part of the narrator's friendship with his absent friend is he sad about?

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

Multiple Choice Questions Key

Short Answer Questions Key

1. What has historically impacted Crete and the Cretan people more than anything else?

Wars.

2. In Chapter 3, what is the narrator reading when Zorba asks him to come in for lunch?

Dante.

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

Canavaro.

4. What part of the narrator's friendship with his absent friend is he sad about?

The two argued rather than expressing love.

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

Mankind.