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1. What does 'Adam' mean?
(Man)
2. What does 'Eve' mean?
(Living)
3. What did God create on the first day?
(Light)
4.
What did God create on the second day?
(Earth and the heavens)
5. What did God create on
the third day?
(Land and seas; vegetation)
6. What did God create on the fourth day?
(Moon
and stars and sun)
7. What did God create on the fifth day?
(Birds and fish)
8. What
did God create on the sixth day?
(Animals and man)
9. What did God do on the seventh day?
(Rested)
10.
What did God notice about His creation?
(That it is very good)
11. What were God's instructions
to Adam?
(Not to eat of the tree in the center of the garden)
12. What did God say was not
good?
(The man was alone)
13. Why did God present the animals to Adam?
(To
see what he would name them)
14. Where is Eden located?
(Historical Armenia)
15.
What was every green plant for?
(For food)
16. What is special about man's creation?
(God
created man in His own image)
17. What was man's intended role in the world?
(ruler)
18.
What did God form Adam out of?
(dust of the ground)
19. How was woman created?
(Out
of Adam's side when he was sleep)
20. Who named the woman?
(Adam)
21. What animal
was the most crafty of all the animals?
(the serpent)
22. Why did Eve eat from the forbidden
tree?
(She was tricked by the serpent)
23. Why did Adam eat from the forbidden tree?
(Because
he deliberately sinned)
24. What was the result of their sin?
(Spiritual and physical death,
suffering for the entire world)
25. What did Adam and Eve notice after they had sinned?
(That
they were naked)
26. What was God's punishment on Adam?
(Work for his food)
27. What
was God's punishment on Eve?
(Pains in childbirth and flawed relationship between her and her husband)
28.
What happened when God confronted Adam and Eve about sin?
(Adam blamed Eve and God, Eve blamed
the serpent)
29. How did the first clothing come about?
(Adam and Eve were ashamed of their
nakedness, and covered themselves with leaves)
30. What did God promise Eve about the serpent?
(That
one of her offspring (Jesus Christ)would crush its head)
31. What caused the first murder?
(Cain
killed Abel because he was jealous of Abel)
32. Who were the children of Adam and Eve who are mentioned?
(Cain,
Abel, Seth).
33. Why was Cain jealous of Abel?
(God accepted Abel's offering, but not Cain's)
34.
Why did God accept Abel's offering?
(Abel gave the best that he had)
35. Who is Satan?
(a
fallen angel who opposes God and wants to destroy humans, who are God's beloved creatures)
36. Among the descendants
of Adam and Eve, who did NOT die?
(Enoch, who walked with God, and Elijah, a later prophet)
37.
What made God regret that He had created Man?
(Their wickedness and evil thoughts)
38. Who
was Noah?
(A righteous man who obeyed God)
39. What did God tell Noah to do?
(Build
an ark to save his family and the animals from the flood, which God was going to send to destroy everything else)
40.
How is climbing into the ark like trusting our Lord Jesus Christ?
(We must not only know about
God's plan of salvation, but also make use of it, despite any shame or humiliation it might cause us)
41. What promise
and sign did God give Noah after they came out of the Ark?
(That God would never flood the earth
again: a rainbow)
42. Where did the Ark land?
(Historical Armenia: the mountains of Ararat!)
43.
How did the languages come about?
(God confused the language of the people who were trying to build
a tower. The purpose of building the tower was to bring glory to themselves.)
44. What did God tell Abram?
(He
should leave his country and family to go to a place where God would take him. God promised to bless him and bless everyone
on earth through him.)
45. Where did God take Abram?
(Canaan)
46. Why did Abram and
Lot part ways?
(So that their herdsmen wouldn't fight over the land and water.)
47. How
did they part ways?
(Abram gave Lot the choice of land, and Lot chose the greenest and best-looking
land for himself. The land was good, but the people were extremely wicked, so it really wasn't the best choice. Abram took
what Lot didn't choose.)
48. Who was Melchizedek?
(The King of Salem (peace) and a Priest
of the Most High God)
49. Who does Melchizedek represent?
(Our Lord Jesus Christ)
50.
How do we know that Abram honored Melchizedek?
(He let Melchizedek bless him, and he gave Melchizedek
10% of everything he had.)
51. What did Melchizedek give Abram when they met?
(Bread and
Wine)
52. What promises did God make to Abram? (name two of them)
(Shield - God would defend him,
Silver
- God would be his reward,
Stars - God would give him many descendants,
Soil - God would give him and
his descendants the land,
Savior - God would bless all nations through him (through Christ, his descendant))
53.
Who were Abram's sons?
(Ishmael, the son of Hagar, and Isaac, the son of Sarai)
54. What
were the two signs of the covenant that God gave to Abram?
(Circumcision, and the name change:
Abram-> Abraham, Sarai-> Sarah)
55. How old were Abraham and Sarah when Isaac was born?
(Over
90)
56. How did Abraham and Sarah respond at first when God promised them a child?
(They
laughed)
57. What happened to Ishmael?
(Sarah had Abraham send Ishmael and Hagar away. God
blessed Ishmael, too. He is the father of Arab peoples.)
58. What happened to Sodom and Gomorrah?
(God
was disgusted with how evil they were, so he destroyed them with fire and sulphur. There weren't even 10 righteous people
there.)
59. What happened to Lot and his family?
(God waited until they had escaped Sodom
before destroying the cities. Lot and his daughters escaped unharmed, but Lot's wife looked back at Sodom, and was turned
into a pillar of salt.)
60. How did Abraham obtain a wife for Isaac?
(He sent his servant
back to his family)
61. How did the servant know he had found Miss Right?
(He prayed to
God that He would show her to him by having her offer to water his camels.)
62. What was Isaac's wife's name?
(Rebekah)
63.
For what did Esau exchange his birthright?
(Lentil stew and bread)
64. How did Jacob get
Isaac's blessing?
(He dressed in Esau's clothes, and put goat skins on his arms to make him feel
hairy, and pretended to be Esau. Isaac wanted to bless Esau, and blessed Jacob instead.)
65. Why did Rebekah want Jacob
to go to Laban?
(Because Esau had resolved to kill Jacob as soon as Isaac had died)
66.
What pretext did Rebekah give to send Jacob to Laban?
(To find a wife from their own people, and
not from the daughters of Canaan)
67. What happened to Jacob at Beth-El?
(God appeared to
him and promised that the land would belong to his descendants, that his descendants would be very numerous, and that all
nations would be blessed through his descendants.)
68. How did Jacob respond?
(He set up
a rock as a sign, and promised to give God a tenth of everything.)
69. Which woman did Jacob Love?
(Rachel)
70.
What did he agree to do for Laban to marry her?
(Work for Laban for seven years)
71. After
seven years, whom did Laban give to him in marriage?
(Leah)
72. When did Jacob discover
the deception?
(The next morning)
73. What new deal did Laban strike with Jacob?
(He
would give Rachel to him in seven days, in exchange for Jacob working for yet another seven years.)
74. After those
seven years were up, what new deal did Laban strike with Jacob?
(Work six more years, and get all
the spotted/speckled/striped cattle)
75. How was Laban deceptive in his cattle dealings with Jacob?
(He
tried to ensure that Jacob's herds wouldn't have spotted/speckled/striped cattle, because then he wouldn't have to give anything
to Jacob in exchange for the six years of work.)
76. How did God intervene in this deal?
(God
made sure that Jacob's cattle had plenty of spotted/speckled/striped cattle.)
77. Which of Jacob's wives was fertile,
and which was barren?
(Leah had many kids, but Rachel had none.)
78. What did Rachel do
about it?
(She gave her handmaiden Bilhah to Jacob to bear children for her.)
79. What did
Leah do concerning handmaidens?
(She gave her handmaiden Zilpah to Jacob to bear children for her.)
80.
When Rachel finally had a son, what was his name?
(Joseph)
81. When Jacob suggested his
family move on to Canaan, how did Rachel and Leah respond?
(We have no inheritance here, and he
treats us like foreigners. Let's go!)
82. When Jacob left with his wives, children, and property, did he tell his father-in-law?
(No.)
83.
What did Rachel steal from Laban?
(The family idols.)
84. When Laban caught up with Jacob,
what did Laban say?
(Why did you take off without letting me kiss you and my daughters goodbye?
And, where did you put the idols which you stole from me?)
85. How did Jacob prepare to meet Esau?
(He
divided up his people into three groups, and put Rachel and Joseph in the last group, so that they would be safest.)
86.
How did Esau receive Jacob?
(He welcomed him and hugged and kissed him.)
87. What happened
to Dinah?
(She was raped by a man who wanted to marry her.)
88. On what condition was it
agreed he could marry her?
(If all the males of his people were circumcised.)
89. After
they were circumcised, what happened?
(Simeon and Levi killed them all while they were still in
pain, which was an evil thing to do.)
90. What dreams did Joseph have?
(He dreamt about
his brother's grains all bowing down to his grain; and about the sun and moon and eleven stars bowing down to him.)
91.
Why did Joseph's brothers hate him?
(Their father favored him so much that they were jealous, and
also he kept having these boastful dreams!)
92. What did Joseph's brothers do?
(They plotted
to kill him, but ended up selling him as a slave instead.)
93. Which brother did not want to kill Joseph?
(Reuben;
he wasn't there when they decided to sell Joseph, because he had gone to get help.)
94. What did Jacob's sons tell
him when Joseph was gone?
(They brought him Joseph's coat which they had covered with goat blood
and said they had found it, so their father thought Joseph had been killed by a wild animal.)
95. What did Potiphar
find out about Joseph?
(God prospered everything he did - so Potiphar put him in charge of his
entire household.)
96. How did Joseph get put in prison?
(He refused to sleep with Potiphar's
wife, so she accused him of trying to rape her.)
97. What dream did the cupbearer have? What did it mean?
(He
dreamt that he squeezed three bunches of grapes into a cup and gave the cup to Pharaoh, which meant that in three days he
would be restored from prison to his old position.)
98. What dream did the baker have? What did it mean?
(He
dreamt that he had three baskets of bread on his head, which birds ate from. It meant that in three days he would be taken
from prison and executed.)
99. What dreams did Pharaoh have?
(He dreamt that there were
seven fat sheaves of wheat which were eaten up by seven shrivelled, sickly sheaves of wheat; and that there were seven fat
cows which were eaten up by the seven skinny, lean cows.)
100. What did Pharaoh's cupbearer recommend?
(That
they send Joseph.)
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