This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As the narrator gets to know the mine workers, what does he talk to them about?
(a) Socialist ideas.
(b) Revolution.
(c) Women.
(d) Religion.

2. What happens at the celebration in Chapter 5?
(a) The slaughter of sheep.
(b) The eating of elaborate cakes.
(c) Several marriage ceremonies.
(d) The castration of pigs.

3. What does Zorba think is the best way to run the mine?
(a) Volunteer work.
(b) Cruel authority.
(c) A voting system.
(d) Bonus awards.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens at the mine in Chapter 9?

2. Where is the narrator sitting and thinking at the beginning of the story?

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

4. Under what conditions does Zorba say that Noussa left him?

5. How does Zorba live his life?

Multiple Choice Questions Key

Short Answer Questions Key

1. What happens at the mine in Chapter 9?

It collapses.

2. Where is the narrator sitting and thinking at the beginning of the story?

In a bar.

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

Zorba.

4. Under what conditions does Zorba say that Noussa left him?

She eloped with a soldier.

5. How does Zorba live his life?

He lives like every day is his last.