Q 01/05

Passover celebrates the Exodus of the Israelites from slavery in which land?

A) Babylon

B) Persia

C) Assyria

D) Egypt

Answer · why

D) Egypt

It is one of the Three Pilgrimage Festivals, alongside Shavuot and Sukkot.

Q 02/05

The holiday's name refers to God 'passing over' Israelite homes marked with what?

A) A lit candle

B) A palm branch

C) The blood of a lamb

D) Salt on the threshold

Answer · why

C) The blood of a lamb

The doorframes were marked so the tenth plague, the death of the firstborn, would skip those houses.

Q 03/05

Passover begins on the 15th day of which month of the Hebrew calendar?

A) Nisan

B) Tishrei

C) Adar

D) Iyar

Answer · why

A) Nisan

Nisan is counted as the first month of the Hebrew year, and the holiday always begins at sundown the evening before.

Q 04/05

Jews outside Israel traditionally celebrate Passover for how many days?

A) Seven

B) Eight

C) Ten

D) Six

Answer · why

B) Eight

In Israel it lasts seven, and Reform and Reconstructionist Jews usually keep seven wherever they live.

Q 05/05

The intermediate, less-restricted days in the middle of Passover are known by what name?

A) Yom Tov

B) Shabbat HaGadol

C) Pesach Sheni

D) Chol HaMoed

Answer · why

D) Chol HaMoed

The name means 'weekdays of the festival'; Pesach Sheni is the make-up 'Second Passover' a month later.