Fasting 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.How long did Jesus fast in the wilderness?
- A. Seven days
- B. Twenty days
- C. Forty days and forty nights ✓
- D. Three days
Answer: Forty days and forty nights
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
Q2.What did Jesus say about fasting when the bridegroom is taken away?
- A. They will fast ✓
- B. They will feast
- C. They will mourn forever
- D. They will forget
Answer: They will fast
And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.
Q3.What did Jesus warn against when fasting?
- A. Fasting too long
- B. Appearing unto men to fast, with a sad countenance and disfigured face ✓
- C. Fasting without prayer
- D. Fasting on the Sabbath
Answer: Appearing unto men to fast, with a sad countenance and disfigured face
Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Q4.What did Jesus say to do when fasting?
- A. Anoint thine head, and wash thy face ✓
- B. Wear sackcloth publicly
- C. Tell everyone
- D. Skip the synagogue
Answer: Anoint thine head, and wash thy face
But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face; That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret.
Q5.Why did the Ninevites fast?
- A. Because of Jonah's preaching of judgment ✓
- B. Because of a famine
- C. Because of a plague
- D. Because of war
Answer: Because of Jonah's preaching of judgment
So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
Q6.What did Esther ask Mordecai and the Jews to do before she went to the king?
- A. Fast for me, and neither eat nor drink, three days, night or day ✓
- B. Prepare weapons
- C. Send messengers
- D. Flee the city
Answer: Fast for me, and neither eat nor drink, three days, night or day
Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink, three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise.
Q7.What kind of fast does God choose in Isaiah 58?
- A. To afflict the soul for a day
- B. To loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free ✓
- C. To wear sackcloth only
- D. To abstain from all work
Answer: To loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free
Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
Q8.What did Joel call the people to?
- A. A feast
- B. A solemn assembly, a fast, and a day of blowing the trumpet ✓
- C. A military parade
- D. A harvest celebration
Answer: A solemn assembly, a fast, and a day of blowing the trumpet
Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly.
Q9.How often did the Pharisee in Luke 18:12 say he fasted?
- A. Once a week
- B. Twice in the week ✓
- C. Every day
- D. Once a month
Answer: Twice in the week
I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.
Q10.What did the church at Antioch do before sending Paul and Barnabas?
- A. They fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them ✓
- B. They held a feast
- C. They voted by ballot
- D. They consulted the Sanhedrin
Answer: They fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them
And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.