1. 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.

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

3. What does Zorba consider the act of dancing to be?
(a) Sexual.
(b) Entertainment.
(c) Competition.
(d) Communication.

4. The narrator warn Zorba that such passions may lead to the removal of what body part?
(a) The brain.
(b) The sexual organs.
(c) The achilles.
(d) The ears.

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

6. Who is the second person to offer the narrator and Zorba lodging in Crete?
(a) The monks.
(b) The pharmacist.
(c) The village elder.
(d) The local baker.

7. What is the ultimate physical experience for Zorba?
(a) Playing a musical instrument.
(b) Mining.
(c) Sex.
(d) Going to war.

8. What is the primary message in the book that the narrator is reading?
(a) It exhibits the excellence of true love.
(b) It emphasizes the virtue of possessing nothing.
(c) It makes an example of the inefficiency of bookworms.
(d) It offers instruction on running a mine.

9. Who were Madame Hortense's four great loves?
(a) Four chefs from Italy, France, Spain, and Poland.
(b) Four admirals from England, France, Italy, Russia.
(c) Four thieves from Crete.
(d) Two pilots from America and two from Germany.

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

11. What or who does the narrator's long-time friend live for?
(a) God.
(b) Mankind.
(c) Women.
(d) The narrator.

12. What does Zorba tell the narrator that God would rather him do?
(a) God would rather him celebrate Christmas than work on his writing.
(b) God would rather him visit the widow than go to church.
(c) God would rather him go to church than work at the mine.
(d) God would rather him work at the mine than attend a celebration.

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

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

15. What does the narrator do on his first morning in Crete?
(a) He takes a stroll through the countryside.
(b) He reads the Bible.
(c) He goes to the market.
(d) He discusses his plans for the mine with Zorba.