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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Zorba suggest that a man best get to know the world?
(a) He suggests that a man spend some time being savage and sinful.
(b) He says that a man should have relations with many women.
(c) He says that a man should go sailing around the world.
(d) He says that a man should try foreign foods.

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

3. Zorba tells the story of an old man who will what?
(a) Never leave Crete.
(b) Cook a delicious soup.
(c) Never die.
(d) Play a musical instrument when happy.

4. 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 reads the Bible.
(d) He discusses his plans for the mine with Zorba.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the primary message in the book that the narrator is reading?

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

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

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

Multiple Choice Questions Key

Short Answer Questions Key

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

He offers no excuse or reason.

2. What is the primary message in the book that the narrator is reading?

It emphasizes the virtue of possessing nothing.

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

Finger.

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

Canavaro.

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

He throws his boss out of the mine.