Q 01/05

Which book is in the Catholic Old Testament but outside the Protestant canon?

A) 1 Samuel

B) Ezekiel

C) 1 Maccabees

D) Zechariah

Answer · why

C) 1 Maccabees

1 Maccabees tells how Judas Maccabeus retook Jerusalem and rededicated the Temple, the event Hanukkah still celebrates.

Q 02/05

Which New Testament letter contains the famous passage 'love is patient, love is kind'?

A) Ephesians

B) 1 Corinthians

C) Philippians

D) 2 Corinthians

Answer · why

B) 1 Corinthians

1 Corinthians sets this hymn to love inside Paul's rebuke of a church split by quarrels over status and spiritual gifts.

Q 03/05

Which ecumenical council explicitly laid out the 73-book canon used by the Catholic Church?

A) Nicaea

B) Chalcedon

C) Trent

D) Ephesus

Answer · why

C) Trent

Trent made the list binding dogma in 1546 to answer the Reformers, confirming the same books the Council of Florence had listed in 1442.

Q 04/05

The books traditionally credited to Moses are known collectively by which Greek-derived name?

A) The Septuagint

B) The Apocrypha

C) The Ketuvim

D) The Pentateuch

Answer · why

D) The Pentateuch

The Pentateuch means 'five scrolls' in Greek, and Judaism calls the same books the Torah, a word meaning 'instruction' rather than just 'law'.

Q 05/05

Which single-chapter book of 21 verses is the shortest in the Hebrew Bible?

A) Obadiah

B) Nahum

C) Haggai

D) Joel

Answer · why

A) Obadiah

Obadiah is one long oracle against Edom, the nation descended from Esau, for gloating and looting while Jerusalem fell.