Exodus 14 Quiz — Crossing the Red Sea — 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.Where did the LORD tell Moses to camp by the sea?
- A. Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea ✓
- B. Elim
- C. Marah
- D. Rephidim
Answer: Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea
Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea. (Exodus 14:2)
Q2.What did Pharaoh think when Israel camped by the sea?
- A. They are trapped and wandering ✓
- B. They are preparing for battle
- C. They are worshipping idols
- D. They are waiting for him
Answer: They are trapped and wandering
And Pharaoh said, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in. (Exodus 14:3)
Q3.How many chariots did Pharaoh take after Israel?
- A. Two hundred
- B. Four hundred
- C. Six hundred
- D. All the chariots of Egypt ✓
Answer: All the chariots of Egypt
And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them. (Exodus 14:7)
Q4.What was Israel's reaction when they saw the Egyptians?
- A. They praised God
- B. They were sore afraid and cried out unto the LORD ✓
- C. They prepared to fight
- D. They ran south
Answer: They were sore afraid and cried out unto the LORD
And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes... and they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out unto the LORD. (Exodus 14:10)
Q5.What did they say to Moses?
- A. Blessed be thou, Moses
- B. Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians
- C. Wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt? ✓
- D. Lead us forward
Answer: Wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?
Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness. (Exodus 14:12)
Q6.What did Moses tell the people to do?
- A. Prepare for battle
- B. Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD ✓
- C. Run for the hills
- D. Surrender to Pharaoh
Answer: Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD
And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD. (Exodus 14:13)
Q7.What did the LORD tell Moses to do with his rod?
- A. Strike the sea
- B. Lift it up over the sea and divide it ✓
- C. Cast it before Pharaoh
- D. Break it in two
Answer: Lift it up over the sea and divide it
But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it. (Exodus 14:16)
Q8.What stood between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel?
- A. A wall of fire
- B. A cloud and darkness ✓
- C. An angel
- D. A mighty wind
Answer: A cloud and darkness
And the angel of God... went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them... and the one came not near the other all the night. (Exodus 14:19-20)
Q9.How did the LORD trouble the Egyptians?
- A. Took off their chariot wheels ✓
- B. Sent hailstones
- C. Plagued them with darkness
- D. Made them blind
Answer: Took off their chariot wheels
And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians, And took off their chariot wheels. (Exodus 14:24-25)
Q10.How many Egyptians survived that day?
- A. Half of them
- B. Those who surrendered
- C. None — the LORD overthrew them in the sea ✓
- D. The charioteers only
Answer: None — the LORD overthrew them in the sea
And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them. (Exodus 14:28)