Exodus 20 Quiz — The Ten Commandments — 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.How does God identify Himself at the start?
- A. I AM that I AM
- B. I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt ✓
- C. The LORD of hosts
- D. The Almighty
Answer: I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt
I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt.
Q2.What is the first commandment?
- A. Honour thy parents
- B. Thou shalt have no other gods before me ✓
- C. Remember the Sabbath
- D. Thou shalt not kill
Answer: Thou shalt have no other gods before me
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Q3.What does the second commandment forbid?
- A. Lying
- B. Making and bowing to graven images ✓
- C. Stealing
- D. Coveting
Answer: Making and bowing to graven images
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image.
Q4.What is the third commandment?
- A. Remember the Sabbath
- B. Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain ✓
- C. Honour thy father
- D. Thou shalt not steal
Answer: Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain
Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain.
Q5.What is to be remembered, to keep it holy?
- A. Passover
- B. The Sabbath day ✓
- C. The feast of tabernacles
- D. The new moon
Answer: The Sabbath day
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Q6.How many days shalt thou labour?
- A. Five
- B. Six ✓
- C. Seven
- D. Twelve
Answer: Six
Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work.
Q7.Which commandment carries a promise of long days?
- A. Honour thy father and thy mother ✓
- B. Thou shalt not kill
- C. Thou shalt not steal
- D. Thou shalt not bear false witness
Answer: Honour thy father and thy mother
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long.
Q8.What is the ninth commandment?
- A. Thou shalt not kill
- B. Thou shalt not steal
- C. Thou shalt not bear false witness ✓
- D. Thou shalt not covet
Answer: Thou shalt not bear false witness
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Q9.What is forbidden in the tenth commandment?
- A. Working on the Sabbath
- B. Bowing to idols
- C. Coveting thy neighbour's house, wife, or goods ✓
- D. Speaking evil
Answer: Coveting thy neighbour's house, wife, or goods
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house… nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
Q10.How did the people respond when they saw the thunderings?
- A. They worshipped boldly
- B. They removed and stood afar off ✓
- C. They drew near
- D. They sang
Answer: They removed and stood afar off
When the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.