2. How does Zorba suggest that a man best get to know the world?
(a) He suggests that a man spend some time being savage and sinful.
(b) He says that a man should have relations with many women.
(c) He says that a man should go sailing around the world.
(d) He says that a man should try foreign foods.

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

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

5. While Zorba and the narrator are in the shop, who runs past the window?
(a) A paper boy.
(b) A juggler.
(c) A fellow miner.
(d) A beautiful widow.

6. What or who does Zorba live for?
(a) Mining.
(b) God.
(c) Mankind.
(d) Man as individual.

7. Where is the narrator sitting and thinking at the beginning of the story?
(a) At work.
(b) On the beach.
(c) In a bar.
(d) In his bedroom.

8. Zorba tells the story of an old man who will what?
(a) Cook a delicious soup.
(b) Never leave Crete.
(c) Never die.
(d) Play a musical instrument when happy.

9. In regards to food, what three categories does Zorba say that the three different types of men turn their food into?
(a) Fat and manure, work and good humor, and God.
(b) Love and kindness, manure and energy, and gluttony.
(c) Fear, love, and God.
(d) Sex, work, and fat.

10. What does Zorba say that his 80 year-old grandmother wanted?
(a) She wanted the wars to end.
(b) She wanted to be serenaded.
(c) She wanted a young husband.
(d) She wanted to travel to Crete.

11. What does the narrator begin doing late one restless night in Chapter 5?
(a) He begins the writing of his manuscript.
(b) He makes a map of the mine.
(c) He begins a romance with Madame Hortense.
(d) He takes a long walk on the beach.

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

13. How does Zorba believe a man should treat a woman?
(a) He should tell her she's beautiful no matter what.
(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 lie to her about his other lovers.

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

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