This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does the narrator remember his friend teasing him about?
(a) Renting a lignite mine.
(b) Having family from Italy.
(c) Being a bookworm rather than an adventurer.
(d) Being too short.

4. Zorba tells the narrator stories about the island. What kind of events does he describe?
(a) Feasts and birthdays.
(b) Carnivals and circuses.
(c) Wars and revolutions.
(d) Rape and thievery.

5. How does Zorba live his life?
(a) He moves about suspecting that everyone wants to hurt him.
(b) He trusts that other people will show him how to live.
(c) He lives like every day is his last.
(d) He reads books that instruct him how to live.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator hire to help him mine lignite on the island?

2. As the narrator gets to know the mine workers, what does he talk to them about?

3. Which of her lovers' names does Madame Hortense's parrot repeat?

4. In Chapter 3, what is the narrator reading when Zorba asks him to come in for lunch?

5. What has historically impacted Crete and the Cretan people more than anything else?

Multiple Choice Questions Key

Short Answer Questions Key

1. Who does the narrator hire to help him mine lignite on the island?

Zorba.

2. As the narrator gets to know the mine workers, what does he talk to them about?

Socialist ideas.

3. Which of her lovers' names does Madame Hortense's parrot repeat?

Canavaro.

4. In Chapter 3, what is the narrator reading when Zorba asks him to come in for lunch?

Dante.

5. What has historically impacted Crete and the Cretan people more than anything else?

Wars.