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 thrown into the Nile, so Moses' mother hid him in a basket at the river's edge.

Q 02/05

In Exodus, 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 Pharaoh's daughter, though Josephus and the Book of Jubilees call her Thermouthis.

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

Jochebed hid her baby for three months before setting him afloat in a basket, and Numbers calls her a daughter of Levi.

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

After killing the Egyptian who was beating a Hebrew, Moses fled to Midian and sat down by a well, where he met his future wife.

Q 05/05

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

A) Jethro

B) Laban

C) Balaam

D) Korah

Answer · why

A) Jethro

Jethro is also called Reuel in Exodus and Hobab in Judges, a puzzle that has kept commentators busy for centuries.