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    Queen Esther 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.

    1. Q1.What Persian king made Esther his queen?

      • A. Cyrus
      • B. Darius
      • C. Ahasuerus ✓
      • D. Artaxerxes

      Answer: Ahasuerus

      The king loved Esther above all the women… so that he set the royal crown upon her head.

      Read Esther 2:17 (KJV)

    2. Q2.Who was the queen before Esther?

      • A. Bathsheba
      • B. Vashti ✓
      • C. Atossa
      • D. Herodias

      Answer: Vashti

      Queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment.

      Read Esther 1:12 (KJV)

    3. Q3.Who was Esther's cousin and guardian?

      • A. Nehemiah
      • B. Ezra
      • C. Mordecai ✓
      • D. Daniel

      Answer: Mordecai

      And he brought up… Esther, his uncle's daughter.

      Read Esther 2:7 (KJV)

    4. Q4.What was Esther's Hebrew name?

      • A. Hadassah ✓
      • B. Miriam
      • C. Abigail
      • D. Hannah

      Answer: Hadassah

      Hadassah, that is, Esther.

      Read Esther 2:7 (KJV)

    5. Q5.Who plotted to destroy the Jews?

      • A. Haman ✓
      • B. Bigthan
      • C. Tobiah
      • D. Sanballat

      Answer: Haman

      Haman… sought to destroy all the Jews.

      Read Esther 3:6 (KJV)

    6. Q6.Mordecai urged Esther: thou art come to the kingdom for…?

      • A. Such a time as this ✓
      • B. The deliverance of Israel
      • C. The honor of her father
      • D. A great inheritance

      Answer: Such a time as this

      Who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

      Read Esther 4:14 (KJV)

    7. Q7.How many days did Esther call the Jews to fast?

      • A. 1
      • B. 3 ✓
      • C. 7
      • D. 40

      Answer: 3

      Fast ye for me… three days, night or day.

      Read Esther 4:16 (KJV)

    8. Q8.What did Esther say before going to the king unbidden?

      • A. The LORD is with me
      • B. If I perish, I perish ✓
      • C. Behold the handmaid
      • D. Be it unto me

      Answer: If I perish, I perish

      And if I perish, I perish.

      Read Esther 4:16 (KJV)

    9. Q9.Upon what was Haman hanged?

      • A. A cross
      • B. The gallows he built for Mordecai ✓
      • C. A tree
      • D. The city wall

      Answer: The gallows he built for Mordecai

      So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai.

      Read Esther 7:10 (KJV)

    10. Q10.What feast commemorates Israel's deliverance in Esther?

      • A. Passover
      • B. Purim ✓
      • C. Pentecost
      • D. Tabernacles

      Answer: Purim

      They called these days Purim after the name of Pur.

      Read Esther 9:26 (KJV)