Q 01/05

Exodus is which book of the Bible?

A) The first

B) The second

C) The third

D) The fifth

Answer · why

B) The second

It follows Genesis and picks up with the descendants of Jacob multiplying in Egypt.

Q 02/05

The English title Exodus comes from a Greek word meaning what?

A) Departure or going out

B) Deliverance from bondage

C) Wandering in the desert

D) Covenant with God

Answer · why

A) Departure or going out

The Hebrew title is different altogether: Shemot, meaning 'Names', from the book's opening words.

Q 03/05

What is the traditional Hebrew title of the Book of Exodus?

A) Shemot ('Names')

B) Bereshit ('In the beginning')

C) Devarim ('Words')

D) Bamidbar ('In the wilderness')

Answer · why

A) Shemot ('Names')

Each book of the Torah takes its Hebrew name from a word in its first verse; Exodus opens 'These are the names of the sons of Israel'.

Q 04/05

According to Exodus, the enslaved Israelites were forced to build which two store cities?

A) Memphis and Thebes

B) Pithom and Rameses

C) Goshen and Zoan

D) On and Avaris

Answer · why

B) Pithom and Rameses

Rameses is one reason Ramesses II is the pharaoh most often proposed for the story, though the Bible never names any pharaoh.

Q 05/05

Who found the infant Moses hidden in an ark among the reeds of the Nile?

A) A Midianite shepherdess

B) The wife of a Hebrew priest

C) Pharaoh's daughter

D) An Egyptian midwife

Answer · why

C) Pharaoh's daughter

She named him for having drawn him out of the water, and his own mother was hired to nurse him.