Amos Quiz — Questions and Answers
All 10 questions with the correct answer, a short explanation, and the King James Version reference. Use this page as a study guide, an answer key, or a quick review sheet.
Q1.What was the occupation of Amos before he was called to prophesy?
- A. A priest of Bethel
- B. A fisherman of Galilee
- C. A herdman and a gatherer of sycomore fruit ✓
- D. A scribe in the house of the king
Answer: A herdman and a gatherer of sycomore fruit
Amos told Amaziah he was no prophet's son, but a herdman and gatherer of sycomore fruit.
Q2.From which town in Judah did Amos originate?
- A. Bethlehem
- B. Tekoa ✓
- C. Jerusalem
- D. Hebron
Answer: Tekoa
The book begins by identifying Amos as being among the herdmen of Tekoa.
Q3.According to Amos 5:24, what should run down as waters?
- A. Mercy
- B. Judgment ✓
- C. Peace
- D. Grace
Answer: Judgment
The Lord desires that judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
Q4.What did the Lord show Amos in a vision that stood upon a wall made by a line?
- A. A plumbline ✓
- B. A golden lampstand
- C. A basket of summer fruit
- D. A swarm of grasshoppers
Answer: A plumbline
The Lord stood upon a wall with a plumbline in his hand to show He would set a plumbline in Israel.
Q5.What specific famine does Amos prophesy will come upon the land?
- A. A famine of bread
- B. A thirst for water
- C. A famine of hearing the words of the Lord ✓
- D. A famine of wine and oil
Answer: A famine of hearing the words of the Lord
God promised a famine not of bread, but of hearing the words of the LORD.
Q6.Who was the priest of Bethel that opposed Amos and told him to flee to Judah?
- A. Amaziah ✓
- B. Zadok
- C. Abiathar
- D. Pashur
Answer: Amaziah
Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam saying Amos had conspired against him.
Q7.Amos asks, 'Can two walk together, except they be' what?
- A. Friends
- B. Agreed ✓
- C. Of one mind
- D. In the same way
Answer: Agreed
Amos uses this rhetorical question to illustrate the necessity of agreement for fellowship.
Q8.What did the basket of summer fruit signify in Amos's vision?
- A. A time of great harvest and joy
- B. The end is come upon my people of Israel ✓
- C. The sweetness of the law
- D. The provision of God in the wilderness
Answer: The end is come upon my people of Israel
The Lord said the basket of summer fruit meant the end was come upon His people.
Q9.Which constellations are mentioned in Amos 5 as being made by the Lord?
- A. Orion and the Pleiades
- B. The seven stars and Orion ✓
- C. Arcturus and Mazzaroth
- D. The Great Bear and the Little Bear
Answer: The seven stars and Orion
Amos exhorts the people to seek Him that maketh the seven stars and Orion.
Q10.What does the Lord promise to raise up in the last days of the book of Amos?
- A. The temple of Solomon
- B. The walls of Jerusalem
- C. The tabernacle of David that is fallen ✓
- D. The throne of Jeroboam
Answer: The tabernacle of David that is fallen
The Lord promises to raise up the tabernacle of David and close up the breaches thereof.