This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In a letter to his friend, what does the narrator say his friend inspired him to do?
(a) Get married.
(b) Join a circus.
(c) Pursue a life of physical action.
(d) Go to university.

3. 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 free to choose.
(c) He says that he thinks they must be very hungry.
(d) He says they are ungrateful.

4. 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) Fear, love, and God.
(c) Sex, work, and fat.
(d) Love and kindness, manure and energy, and gluttony.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Zorba suggest that the narrator romantically pursue?

2. While Zorba and the narrator are in the shop, who runs past the window?

3. How many places does Zorba set the dinner table for on their first night on Crete?

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

5. What does the narrator begin doing late one restless night in Chapter 5?

Multiple Choice Questions Key

Short Answer Questions Key

1. Who does Zorba suggest that the narrator romantically pursue?

The widow.

2. While Zorba and the narrator are in the shop, who runs past the window?

A beautiful widow.

3. How many places does Zorba set the dinner table for on their first night on Crete?

3

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

Wars and revolutions.

5. What does the narrator begin doing late one restless night in Chapter 5?

He begins the writing of his manuscript.