This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one of the narrator's goals at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) He wants to grow his hair long.
(b) He wants to improve his vocabulary.
(c) He wants to forget about Buddha.
(d) He wants to learn to meditate.

2. How does Zorba suggest that a man best get to know the world?
(a) He says that a man should go sailing around the world.
(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 try foreign foods.

3. When the narrator loses everything, what does he find?
(a) Death.
(b) Intense sorrow.
(c) Revolution.
(d) Happiness.

4. What reason does Zorba give for having attacked his old boss?
(a) He says the man cheated him.
(b) He says the man tried to assault him first.
(c) He offers no excuse or reason.
(d) He claims the man kissed his girlfriend.

5. Who takes charge when the work begins in the mine?
(a) The narrator.
(b) The narrator's grandfather.
(c) A soldier.
(d) Zorba.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator mostly do while Zorba works in the mine?

2. What is the narrator's second goal at the end of Chapter 4?

3. How does Zorba describe God?

4. With what does the narrator compare his lustful feelings for the widow to?

5. What does the narrator come across while walking on the mountain path?

Multiple Choice Questions Key

Short Answer Questions Key

1. What does the narrator mostly do while Zorba works in the mine?

He works on his writing.

2. What is the narrator's second goal at the end of Chapter 4?

He wants to be more grounded in the physical world of men.

3. How does Zorba describe God?

He describes him as a crazier and wilder version of himself.

4. With what does the narrator compare his lustful feelings for the widow to?

The temptation of Buddha by the Evil One.

5. What does the narrator come across while walking on the mountain path?

The ruins of a Minoan city.