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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What reason does Zorba give for having attacked his old boss?
(a) He says the man cheated him.
(b) He offers no excuse or reason.
(c) He claims the man kissed his girlfriend.
(d) He says the man tried to assault him first.

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

4. 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.

5. How does Zorba believe a man should treat a woman?
(a) He should only spend time with her if he wants to marry her.
(b) He should cook and clean for her.
(c) He should lie to her about his other lovers.
(d) He should tell her she's beautiful no matter what.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator remember his friend teasing him about?

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

4. With whom does Zorba begin a romance?

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. What does the narrator remember his friend teasing him about?

Being a bookworm rather than an adventurer.

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. With whom does Zorba begin a romance?

Dame Hortense.

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

Mankind.