This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Zorba suggest that the narrator romantically pursue?
(a) Madame Hortense.
(b) The widow.
(c) The long lost love of his life.
(d) Noussa.

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

3. As the narrator gets to know the mine workers, what does he talk to them about?
(a) Revolution.
(b) Religion.
(c) Socialist ideas.
(d) Women.

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

5. When Zorba and the narrator refuse Mavrandoni's offer of hospitality, what does he say about them?
(a) He says they are ungrateful.
(b) He says they are free to choose.
(c) He calls Madame Hortense mean names.
(d) He says that he thinks they must be very hungry.

Short Answer Questions

1. In regards to food, what three categories does Zorba say that the three different types of men turn their food into?

2. In a letter to his friend, what does the narrator say his friend inspired him to do?

3. Where is the narrator sitting and thinking at the beginning of the story?

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

5. In Chapter 3, what is the narrator reading when Zorba asks him to come in for lunch?

Multiple Choice Questions Key

Short Answer Questions Key

1. In regards to food, what three categories does Zorba say that the three different types of men turn their food into?

Fat and manure, work and good humor, and God.

2. In a letter to his friend, what does the narrator say his friend inspired him to do?

Pursue a life of physical action.

3. Where is the narrator sitting and thinking at the beginning of the story?

In a bar.

4. 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.

5. In Chapter 3, what is the narrator reading when Zorba asks him to come in for lunch?

Dante.