Genesis 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.What did God create on the first day?
- A. Animals
- B. Light ✓
- C. The sea
- D. Man
Answer: Light
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Q2.From what was Eve formed?
- A. Dust
- B. A rib of Adam ✓
- C. Clay
- D. Water
Answer: A rib of Adam
The LORD God… took one of his ribs… made he a woman.
Q3.Who tempted Eve in the garden?
- A. A lion
- B. An angel
- C. The serpent ✓
- D. Cain
Answer: The serpent
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field.
Q4.Who killed his brother Abel?
- A. Seth
- B. Cain ✓
- C. Lamech
- D. Esau
Answer: Cain
And Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
Q5.How many of each clean beast entered the ark?
- A. One pair
- B. Two pairs
- C. Seven ✓
- D. Twelve
Answer: Seven
Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens.
Q6.What sign did God give of His covenant after the Flood?
- A. A dove
- B. A rainbow ✓
- C. A star
- D. An altar
Answer: A rainbow
I do set my bow in the cloud.
Q7.From what city was Abram called?
- A. Haran
- B. Babylon
- C. Ur of the Chaldees ✓
- D. Damascus
Answer: Ur of the Chaldees
I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees.
Q8.Whom did God ask Abraham to offer on Mount Moriah?
- A. Ishmael
- B. Isaac ✓
- C. Jacob
- D. Lot
Answer: Isaac
Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac.
Q9.What did Esau sell to Jacob for stew?
- A. His coat
- B. His tent
- C. His birthright ✓
- D. His sword
Answer: His birthright
Esau sold his birthright unto Jacob.
Q10.Who was sold into Egypt by his brothers?
- A. Benjamin
- B. Reuben
- C. Judah
- D. Joseph ✓
Answer: Joseph
They sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver.