Q 01/05

In the Book of Jonah, what does the repentant king order every person and even every animal to wear?

A) White linen

B) Sackcloth

C) Iron chains

D) Palm wreaths

Answer · why

B) Sackcloth

Sackcloth covered the herds and flocks as well as the people, and the royal decree made the animals fast alongside their owners.

Q 02/05

Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' speech quotes Amos on justice rolling down like what?

A) Thunder

B) Boulders

C) Waters

D) Chariots

Answer · why

C) Waters

Waters is the image in Amos 5:24, where the prophet scorns Israel's feast days and songs and demands judgment and righteousness in their place.

Q 03/05

Which town did Micah name as the birthplace of a future ruler, a verse later quoted to King Herod?

A) Nazareth

B) Jerusalem

C) Jericho

D) Bethlehem

Answer · why

D) Bethlehem

Bethlehem was too small to count among Judah's clans, Micah says, yet the priests Herod consults quote him to say where the Messiah will be born.

Q 04/05

A commentary on Habakkuk was among the first seven of which manuscripts, found near Qumran in 1947?

A) Dead Sea Scrolls

B) Nag Hammadi codices

C) Cairo Geniza papers

D) Oxyrhynchus papyri

Answer · why

A) Dead Sea Scrolls

The Dead Sea Scrolls commentary reads Habakkuk line by line as a forecast of its own sect's troubles, and it deliberately leaves out the book's third ...

Q 05/05

Zechariah pictures Jerusalem's coming king as victorious yet lowly, riding on which animal?

A) A donkey

B) A warhorse

C) A camel

D) A mule

Answer · why

A) A donkey

A donkey carries the king while war horses and chariots are swept away in the next verse, and Matthew and John quote the line for Palm Sunday.