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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator do on his first morning in Crete?
(a) He takes a stroll through the countryside.
(b) He goes to the market.
(c) He discusses his plans for the mine with Zorba.
(d) He reads the Bible.

2. 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 lives like every day is his last.
(d) He moves about suspecting that everyone wants to hurt him.

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

4. How many places does Zorba set the dinner table for on their first night on Crete?
(a) 1
(b) 3
(c) 4
(d) 2

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Zorba do when he hears his boss talking to the workmen?

2. What are Zorba's beliefs about the existence of God?

3. What or who does Zorba live for?

4. Who do Zorba and the narrator stay with on their first night on the island?

5. Why does Zorba say he removed the body part?

Multiple Choice Questions Key

Short Answer Questions Key

1. What does Zorba do when he hears his boss talking to the workmen?

He throws his boss out of the mine.

2. What are Zorba's beliefs about the existence of God?

He does not personally believe in God but believes religion is essential to civilization.

3. What or who does Zorba live for?

Man as individual.

4. Who do Zorba and the narrator stay with on their first night on the island?

Dame Hortense.

5. Why does Zorba say he removed the body part?

It got in the way of his pottery.