This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the great plan that Zorba reveals to the narrator in Chapter 6?
(a) He plans to marry Madame Hortense for her great wealth.
(b) He wants to build a ship so that he and his boss can sail around the world.
(c) He plans to blast a new entrance to the mine.
(d) He wants to develop a cable system for transporting timber.

2. In which category does Zorba think his boss strives for with his food?
(a) Fat and manure.
(b) Work.
(c) God.
(d) Love and kindness.

3. With whom does Zorba begin a romance?
(a) A young widowed mother.
(b) Dame Hortense.
(c) A nun.
(d) A strange woman walking on the beach.

4. In Chapter 4, what does the narrator do when he first awakens?
(a) Has coffee with Zorba.
(b) Smokes a pipe.
(c) Goes straight to work.
(d) Goes jogging.

5. What does Zorba mean when he describes being married "dishonestly"?
(a) Any sexual adventure.
(b) Marrying an Italian woman.
(c) Being married to two women at the same time.
(d) Sexual relationships that later lead to marriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Zorba tell the narrator he should have done before going to bed the night before in chapter 4?

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

3. Why does Zorba travel to town in Chapter 12?

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

5. Why does Zorba tell the narrator not to preach equality of the sexes?

Multiple Choice Questions Key

Short Answer Questions Key

1. What does Zorba tell the narrator he should have done before going to bed the night before in chapter 4?

He says the narrator should have told Dame Hortense how beautiful she is.

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

In a bar.

3. Why does Zorba travel to town in Chapter 12?

To buy supplies for the mine.

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. Why does Zorba tell the narrator not to preach equality of the sexes?

He says it will disrupt the island's way of life without offering solutions for making it better.