1. Why does Zorba watch the widow's home?
(a) He wants to make sure she is not going to bed alone.
(b) He wants to steal from her.
(c) He wants to make sure the narrator is not sneaking into her house.
(d) He wants to protect her from Mimiko.

2. What is the narrator's second goal at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) He wants to be more grounded in the physical world of men.
(b) He wants to learn to play a musical instrument.
(c) He wants to become an excellent cook.
(d) He wants to find a lover.

3. What are Zorba's beliefs about the existence of God?
(a) He looks to Anagnosti for all of his religious questions and shares his beliefs.
(b) He believes in a higher power but not in religion.
(c) He is a Christian.
(d) He does not personally believe in God but believes religion is essential to civilization.

4. What does the narrator do when Zorba displays frustration with the miners?
(a) He fires Zorba.
(b) He leaves the mine without speaking.
(c) He calls a lunch break.
(d) He fires several miners.

5. Why does Zorba begin to feel restless and depressed while in Candia?
(a) He realizes he's aging.
(b) He has fallen in love.
(c) He has suddenly become afraid of mining.
(d) He is going to be a father.

6. Under what conditions does Zorba say that Noussa left him?
(a) She eloped with a soldier.
(b) She went back to her home village to care for her sick mother.
(c) She mysteriously vanished.
(d) She committed suicide.

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

8. What story does Anagnosti tell at the celebration?
(a) Noah's Ark.
(b) A love story.
(c) The tale of his birth.
(d) The ancient civilization of Crete.

9. With what does the narrator begin to equate Buddha?
(a) Successful mining operations.
(b) The onset of true peace.
(c) A new, evolved civilization.
(d) The Void and the end of civilization.

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

11. What does the narrator decide about the poetry he has always loved?
(a) It helped him get through his youth but is of little value now.
(b) It should be banned and removed from all libraries.
(c) It is worthless and does not relate to the true human experience.
(d) It is a foundational part of his sophisticated world view.

12. With what does the narrator compare his lustful feelings for the widow to?
(a) Not ever finding any lignite in the mine.
(b) Walking on the beach at night.
(c) The widow's garden.
(d) The temptation of Buddha by the Evil One.

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

14. What has historically impacted Crete and the Cretan people more than anything else?
(a) Movie theaters.
(b) Religious ceremonies.
(c) Carnivals.
(d) Wars.

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