Q 01/05

How many books are in the Catholic Bible?

A) 66

B) 70

C) 72

D) 73

Answer · why

D) 73

Protestant Bibles have 66; the difference is the seven deuterocanonical books plus extra passages in Esther and Daniel.

Q 02/05

How many books make up the Old Testament of a Catholic Bible?

A) 46

B) 39

C) 42

D) 44

Answer · why

A) 46

That is 39 shared with the Hebrew Bible plus seven deuterocanonical books; the New Testament's 27 are the same for all Christians.

Q 03/05

What term describes the seven Old Testament books Catholics accept that are absent from the Hebrew canon?

A) Pseudepigraphal

B) Apocalyptic

C) Deuterocanonical

D) Intertestamental

Answer · why

C) Deuterocanonical

Protestants file them under 'Apocrypha'; the word means roughly 'second canon' and was coined in 1566.

Q 04/05

Which 16th-century theologian, a convert from Judaism, coined in 1566 the term for books of 'second canon'?

A) Sixtus of Siena

B) Robert Bellarmine

C) Cajetan

D) Erasmus

Answer · why

A) Sixtus of Siena

He applied it to books whose canonical recognition came 'secondarily', in both Testaments.

Q 05/05

Which of these is NOT one of the seven books unique to the Catholic Old Testament?

A) Tobit and Sarah

B) Ecclesiastes

C) Judith of Bethulia

D) Baruch the scribe

Answer · why

B) Ecclesiastes

Ecclesiastes is in every canon; the seven are Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch and 1 and 2 Maccabees.