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1. Why does Cain kill his brother Abel?

(A) Because the serpent tells him to

(B) Because Abel teases Cain

(D) Because God is more pleased by Abel's sacrifice than by Cain's

2. Which of the following are not signs of God's covenant, or promise, with Abraham?

(A) The rite of circumcision

(B) God renames Abraham and his wife Sarah

(D) God provides Sarah with a son, Isaac

3. How does Jacob steal his brother Esau's inheritance rights?

(A) By killing his brother

(B) By tricking his father with the help of his mother

(D) By exposing Esau's plan to murder his father

4. How many sons does Jacob have?

(A) Three

(B) Four

(D) Twelve

5. What is Jacob's alternate name?

(A) Judah

(B) Isaac

(D) Ishmael

6. From which catastrophe does Joseph save Egypt?

(A) Famine

(B) A Plague

(D) A flood

7. How does God first appear to Moses?

(A) As a group of three men

(B) As an angel

(D) As a burning bush

8. What object that God gives Moses allows him to perform signs and wonders?

(A) The stone tablets

(B) A wooden staff

(D) A golden censer

9. How does God feed the Israelites in the desert?

(A) By miraculously providing fish from the Red Sea

(B) By a strange bread-like substance from heaven

(D) By an endless supply of produce from Egypt

10. Why does Moses break the stone tablets inscribed with God's commandments at Mount Sinai?

(A) Because he trips walking down the mountain

(B) Because God commands him to

(D) Because the people are worshipping a golden idol

11. Why does God curse the Israelites to wander the desert for forty years before entering the promised land?

(A) Because a group of Israelite spies incite an uprising to return to Egypt

(B) Because the Israelites incorrectly perform the ritual sacrifice

(D) Because the Israelites worship golden idols

12. What do Moses and Joshua forbid the Israelites to do in the promised land?

(A) Intermarry with the native inhabitants

(B) Conquer the cities of the region

(D) Bathe in the Jordan River

13. Who betrays Samson to the Philistines?

(A) Sarah

(B) Delilah

(D) Deborah

14. Why does God reject Saul as king of Israel?

(A) Because Saul has too many concubines

(B) Because Saul kills Samuel

(D) Because Saul is too cowardly to fight the Philistines

15. Why does the prophet Nathan rebuke David?

(A) David fails to build the Temple to God

(B) David curses God inadvertently

(D) David allows one of his sons to rape his stepsister

16. What does David bring to Jerusalem to bless the religious city?

(A) The body of Moses

(B) The Ark of the Covenant

(D) Thousands of animals to be sacrificed to God

17. How does Absalom flaunt his brief overthrow of David's throne?

(A) By destroying David's palace

(B) By killing the priests of Israel

(D) By sleeping with David's concubines in public

18. What event triggers the division of Israel into two kingdoms?

(A) Jeroboam desecrates the Temple in Jerusalem

(B) Jeroboam leads a rebellion against the wicked King Rehoboam

(D) Rehoboam wants the tribe of Judah to secede from the twelve tribes

19. Who is Elisha?

(A) Elijah

(B) Elijah's opponent

(D) Elijah's son

20. What do the deaths of King Ahab and his wife Jezebel have in common?

(A) Elijah stabs them in their sleep

(B) Dogs eat the blood of their dead bodies

(D) They die cursing God

21. Which Jewish festival results from the events in Esther?

(A) Passover

(B) Hanukkah

(D) Rosh Hashanah

22. Which of the following is not one of Israel's judges?

(A) Deborah

(B) Gideon

(D) Jephthah

23. What does King Solomon do in Israel?

(A) He introduces animal sacrifices

(B) He bans the cult of Baal worship in Israel

(D) He forms a legendary round table of leaders and priests

24. What is one of the main criteria in Leviticus for living in the Israelite camp?

(A) To be ceremonially clean

(B) To remain sexually abstinent

(D) Not to shave

25. Why does God reprimand Job?

(A) Because Job listens to his wife and curses God

(B) Because Job does not delight in his suffering

(D) Because Job heeds the advice of his friends

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