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    Genesis 3 Quiz — The Fall of Man — 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.

    1. Q1.How is the serpent described?

      • A. Wise
      • B. More subtil than any beast
      • C. Cunning above man
      • D. Crafty as a fox

      Answer: More subtil than any beast

      Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field.

      Read Genesis 3:1 (KJV)

    2. Q2.What was the serpent's first words?

      • A. Thou shalt not surely die
      • B. Yea, hath God said
      • C. Behold, the day
      • D. Why fearest thou?

      Answer: Yea, hath God said

      Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

      Read Genesis 3:1 (KJV)

    3. Q3.What did the serpent claim would happen if they ate?

      • A. Their eyes would close
      • B. Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil
      • C. They would die
      • D. They would fly

      Answer: Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil

      Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

      Read Genesis 3:5 (KJV)

    4. Q4.What did Adam and Eve do when they knew they were naked?

      • A. Hid in a cave
      • B. Sewed fig leaves together for aprons
      • C. Made coats of skins
      • D. Wept openly

      Answer: Sewed fig leaves together for aprons

      Sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

      Read Genesis 3:7 (KJV)

    5. Q5.When did they hear the LORD God?

      • A. At noon
      • B. In the cool of the day
      • C. At midnight
      • D. At sunrise

      Answer: In the cool of the day

      Heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day.

      Read Genesis 3:8 (KJV)

    6. Q6.Whom did Adam blame?

      • A. Himself
      • B. The woman whom thou gavest to be with me
      • C. The serpent
      • D. The angel

      Answer: The woman whom thou gavest to be with me

      The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree.

      Read Genesis 3:12 (KJV)

    7. Q7.What did God say to the serpent about its movement?

      • A. Fly low
      • B. Upon thy belly shalt thou go
      • C. Crawl in the dust
      • D. Hide in the trees

      Answer: Upon thy belly shalt thou go

      Upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat.

      Read Genesis 3:14 (KJV)

    8. Q8.Whose seed shall bruise the serpent's head?

      • A. Adam's
      • B. The woman's
      • C. Abel's
      • D. Cain's

      Answer: The woman's

      It shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

      Read Genesis 3:15 (KJV)

    9. Q9.Of what did God make Adam and Eve coats?

      • A. Wool
      • B. Leaves
      • C. Skins
      • D. Linen

      Answer: Skins

      Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins.

      Read Genesis 3:21 (KJV)

    10. Q10.Who guarded the way to the tree of life?

      • A. A lion
      • B. Cherubims, and a flaming sword
      • C. An angel only
      • D. A pillar of fire

      Answer: Cherubims, and a flaming sword

      He placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword.

      Read Genesis 3:24 (KJV)