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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why does Zorba tell the narrator not to preach equality of the sexes?
(a) He says that the people of Crete believe in equality of the sexes already.
(b) He says it will disrupt the island's way of life without offering solutions for making it better.
(c) He says that Anagnosti will kill him if he does.
(d) He says it is all lies anyway.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the second person to offer the narrator and Zorba lodging in Crete?

3. Zorba tells the narrator stories about the island. What kind of events does he describe?

4. What or who does the narrator live for?

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

Multiple Choice Questions Key

Short Answer Questions Key

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

Wars.

2. Who is the second person to offer the narrator and Zorba lodging in Crete?

The village elder.

3. Zorba tells the narrator stories about the island. What kind of events does he describe?

Wars and revolutions.

4. What or who does the narrator live for?

God.

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

Dame Hortense.