Deuteronomy Bible 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 does 'Deuteronomy' mean?
- A. Second law / the law repeated ✓
- B. First law
- C. The covenant
- D. The word of God
Answer: Second law / the law repeated
Deuteronomy means 'second law' — Moses rehearsed the law for the new generation.
Q2.What is the greatest commandment in Deuteronomy 6?
- A. Thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, soul, and might ✓
- B. Thou shalt not kill
- C. Honour thy parents
- D. Keep the Sabbath
Answer: Thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, soul, and might
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
Q3.What were parents commanded to teach their children?
- A. The law of the LORD ✓
- B. The ways of war
- C. The history of Egypt
- D. The names of the kings
Answer: The law of the LORD
These words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children.
Q4.What city was chosen as the place to put God's name?
- A. Shiloh
- B. Jerusalem
- C. A place which the LORD your God shall choose ✓
- D. Bethel
Answer: A place which the LORD your God shall choose
Unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there.
Q5.What prophet did God promise to raise up like Moses?
- A. Joshua
- B. Elijah
- C. A Prophet from among their brethren ✓
- D. Samuel
Answer: A Prophet from among their brethren
I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee; and will put my words in his mouth.
Q6.What were the Israelites to do with the law when they entered the land?
- A. Write it on the doorposts and gates ✓
- B. Hide it in the ark
- C. Burn it
- D. Give it to the priests only
Answer: Write it on the doorposts and gates
Thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
Q7.What happened to Moses at the end of Deuteronomy?
- A. He crossed into Canaan
- B. He died on Mount Nebo, and God buried him ✓
- C. He was taken to heaven
- D. He lived another forty years
Answer: He died on Mount Nebo, and God buried him
So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab… and he buried him in a valley… but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.
Q8.How old was Moses when he died?
- A. One hundred and twenty ✓
- B. One hundred and twenty-seven
- C. One hundred and forty
- D. Eighty
Answer: One hundred and twenty
Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died.
Q9.What did Moses see from Mount Nebo?
- A. The promised land
- B. All the land of Gilead, unto Dan… the utmost sea
- C. Both of the above ✓
- D. Heaven
Answer: Both of the above
The LORD shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan… the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea… the south, and the plain.
Q10.Who succeeded Moses?
- A. Aaron
- B. Joshua ✓
- C. Caleb
- D. Eleazar
Answer: Joshua
Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him.