Q 01/05

As a baby, Moses was hidden by his mother in a basket among the bulrushes of which river?

A) The Jordan

B) The Nile

C) The Euphrates

D) The Tigris

Answer · why

B) The Nile

Pharaoh had ordered every newborn Hebrew boy drowned; the princess who found the child adopted him as a foundling.

Q 02/05

Who found the infant Moses in the river and raised him?

A) Pharaoh's wife

B) Pharaoh's daughter

C) A Hebrew midwife

D) A Midianite shepherdess

Answer · why

B) Pharaoh's daughter

Exodus never names her; Josephus and the Book of Jubilees call her Thermouthis, and Jewish tradition Bithiah.

Q 03/05

Moses' birth mother, who was later hired to nurse her own son, was named what?

A) Miriam

B) Jochebed

C) Zipporah

D) Bithiah

Answer · why

B) Jochebed

She was a daughter of Levi and, by one reckoning in Numbers, the aunt of her own husband Amram.

Q 04/05

Moses fled Egypt after killing an Egyptian who was doing what?

A) Robbing a temple

B) Beating a Hebrew

C) Insulting Pharaoh

D) Stealing his sheep

Answer · why

B) Beating a Hebrew

He escaped to Midian, where he met his future wife at a well.

Q 05/05

Moses' wife Zipporah was one of the seven daughters of which Midianite priest?

A) Laban

B) Jethro

C) Balaam

D) Korah

Answer · why

B) Jethro

Exodus also calls him Reuel and Judges calls him Hobab, a puzzle that has kept commentators busy for centuries.