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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the second person to offer the narrator and Zorba lodging in Crete?
(a) The local baker.
(b) The village elder.
(c) The pharmacist.
(d) The monks.

2. When the narrator meets some young women on his first day in Crete, how do the girls respond?
(a) Joyfully.
(b) Fearfully.
(c) With ridicule.
(d) With hatred.

3. What pact do the narrator and his best friend make before parting?
(a) They agree to one day own a lignite mine together.
(b) They agree to a double wedding when they reunite.
(c) They agree to fight in the war together.
(d) They agree to telepathically warn one another of danger.

4. Zorba tells the narrator stories about the island. What kind of events does he describe?
(a) Feasts and birthdays.
(b) Rape and thievery.
(c) Carnivals and circuses.
(d) Wars and revolutions.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator begin doing late one restless night in Chapter 5?

3. Who does the narrator hire to help him mine lignite on the island?

4. To whom does the narrator's soldier friend say his greatest actions will be owed credit?

5. The narrator warn Zorba that such passions may lead to the removal of what body part?

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 does the narrator begin doing late one restless night in Chapter 5?

He begins the writing of his manuscript.

3. Who does the narrator hire to help him mine lignite on the island?

Zorba.

4. To whom does the narrator's soldier friend say his greatest actions will be owed credit?

Rembrandt's "Warrior."

5. The narrator warn Zorba that such passions may lead to the removal of what body part?

The sexual organs.