This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator remember his grandfather doing?
(a) He started a mining business.
(b) He demanded stories from his guests.
(c) He sailed around the world.
(d) He had many lovers.

2. How does Zorba feel about women?
(a) He believes they are intellectually superior to men.
(b) He feels closer to them than he does to men.
(c) He doesn't speak to them but looks constantly for a wife.
(d) He does not take them seriously but enjoys them physically.

3. What does the narrator mostly do while Zorba works in the mine?
(a) He romances Madame Hortense.
(b) He works on his writing.
(c) He also works in the mine.
(d) He swims in the ocean.

4. In which category does Zorba think his boss strives for with his food?
(a) Love and kindness.
(b) Work.
(c) Fat and manure.
(d) God.

5. How does Zorba live his life?
(a) He trusts that other people will show him how to live.
(b) He reads books that instruct him how to live.
(c) He moves about suspecting that everyone wants to hurt him.
(d) He lives like every day is his last.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What body part is Zorba missing a part of?

3. What reason does Zorba give for having attacked his old boss?

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

5. What does Zorba indicate would be the worst thing the narrator could do to Anagnosti?

Multiple Choice Questions Key

Short Answer Questions Key

1. 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.

2. What body part is Zorba missing a part of?

Finger.

3. What reason does Zorba give for having attacked his old boss?

He offers no excuse or reason.

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

Mankind.

5. What does Zorba indicate would be the worst thing the narrator could do to Anagnosti?

Cast down his religion.