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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What act has Zorba performed that symbolizes the connection between freedom and manliness?
(a) He carried everyone's bags onto the ship.
(b) He cut part of his ear off because it was larger than the other.
(c) He cut part of his finger off because it got in the way of his pottery.
(d) He brutally killed hundreds of people in the revolution.

3. What happens to Zorba that he believes to be a terrible omen?
(a) A priest crosses his path.
(b) He falls in love with a woman.
(c) He loses his job at the mine.
(d) He grows interested in philosophy.

4. What does Zorba think is the best way to run the mine?
(a) Bonus awards.
(b) Cruel authority.
(c) Volunteer work.
(d) A voting system.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What story does Anagnosti tell at the celebration?

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

3. How does Zorba suggest that a man best get to know the world?

4. What does the narrator do when Zorba displays frustration with the miners?

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

Multiple Choice Questions Key

Short Answer Questions Key

1. What story does Anagnosti tell at the celebration?

The tale of his birth.

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

Wars and revolutions.

3. How does Zorba suggest that a man best get to know the world?

He suggests that a man spend some time being savage and sinful.

4. What does the narrator do when Zorba displays frustration with the miners?

He calls a lunch break.

5. 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.