Q 01/05

Which animal cannot change its markings, according to a saying that comes from Jeremiah 13:23?

A) A tiger

B) A leopard

C) A cheetah

D) A zebra

Answer · why

B) A leopard

A leopard cannot change its spots, the verse says, any more than people long practised in evil can suddenly start doing good.

Q 02/05

Which part of a person does Jeremiah 17:9 call 'deceitful above all things' and exceedingly corrupt?

A) The tongue

B) The eye

C) The heart

D) The mind

Answer · why

C) The heart

The heart is so deceitful that no one can fully know it, the verse adds, and God replies in the next line that he searches and tests it.

Q 03/05

Which phrase from Jeremiah's temple sermon did Jesus quote when he drove the money changers out?

A) A brood of vipers

B) Whitewashed tombs

C) Blind guides

D) A den of robbers

Answer · why

D) A den of robbers

A den of robbers was Jeremiah's charge against worshippers who stole and murdered, then stood in the temple and declared themselves safe.

Q 04/05

What did King Jehoiakim do with the scroll of Jeremiah's prophecies as it was read aloud to him?

A) Cut and burned it

B) Sealed it in a jar

C) Hid it in the temple

D) Sent it to Babylon

Answer · why

A) Cut and burned it

Cut and burned it, a few columns at a time, with a penknife and a winter brazier; Jeremiah simply dictated the whole scroll again and added more.

Q 05/05

Jeremiah 29:11 says God's plans for the exiles are to give them hope and what else?

A) A harvest

B) A kingdom

C) A future

D) A homeland

Answer · why

C) A future

A future was promised in a letter Jeremiah sent to captives in Babylon, telling them to settle in because the wait would be long.