Q 01/05

Jewish tradition places Abraham's near-sacrifice of his son on the spot now covered by which Jerusalem shrine?

A) The Al-Aqsa Mosque

B) The Dome of the Rock

C) The Western Wall

D) The Holy Sepulchre

Answer · why

B) The Dome of the Rock

The Dome of the Rock shelters the Foundation Stone, which Jewish tradition identifies with Abraham's altar; for Muslims the same rock is where Muhamma...

Q 02/05

Abraham is regarded as the forefather of the Jewish people through Isaac and of which other people through Ishmael?

A) The Persians

B) The Arabs

C) The Greeks

D) The Egyptians

Answer · why

B) The Arabs

The Arabs: Genesis gives Ishmael twelve sons who became tribal chiefs, and Islamic tradition traces the prophet Muhammad's own family back to one of t...

Q 03/05

In Genesis, who is named as Abraham's father?

A) Laban

B) Methuselah

C) Lot

D) Terah

Answer · why

D) Terah

Terah is the name Genesis gives; the Quran calls Abraham's father Azar instead, and Muslim scholars have long debated whether the two are the same man...

Q 04/05

According to Genesis, in which city did Abraham's family originally live?

A) Nineveh

B) Damascus

C) Babylon

D) Ur

Answer · why

D) Ur

Ur is usually identified with a Sumerian city in southern Iraq, thousands of years older than the Chaldeans whose name Genesis attaches to it.

Q 05/05

God's call to Abram promised that through him all the families of the earth would be what?

A) Freed

B) Blessed

C) Gathered

D) Healed

Answer · why

B) Blessed

Blessed: Genesis sets the promise at the very start of Abram's story, when he was 75 and his wife had no children, so he set out for a new land with n...