Hagar 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.Who was Hagar?
- A. Sarah's Egyptian handmaid ✓
- B. Abraham's sister
- C. A Canaanite princess
- D. A Philistine
Answer: Sarah's Egyptian handmaid
And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.
Q2.Why did Sarah give Hagar to Abraham?
- A. Because Sarah was barren and hoped to obtain children by her ✓
- B. Because Hagar was wealthy
- C. Because it was commanded by God
- D. Because Abraham demanded it
Answer: Because Sarah was barren and hoped to obtain children by her
And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her.
Q3.What happened between Sarah and Hagar after Hagar conceived?
- A. Sarah despised Hagar, and Hagar fled from her face ✓
- B. They became best friends
- C. Hagar refused to serve
- D. Sarah adopted the child
Answer: Sarah despised Hagar, and Hagar fled from her face
And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face.
Q4.Where did the angel of the LORD find Hagar?
- A. By a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur ✓
- B. In Egypt
- C. In Canaan
- D. In the Red Sea
Answer: By a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur
And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
Q5.What did the angel tell Hagar to name her son?
- A. Isaac
- B. Ishmael: because the LORD hath heard thy affliction ✓
- C. Esau
- D. Jacob
Answer: Ishmael: because the LORD hath heard thy affliction
And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
Q6.What did Hagar call the LORD after her encounter?
- A. El Roi — Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me? ✓
- B. Jehovah-jireh
- C. El Shaddai
- D. Adonai
Answer: El Roi — Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me?
And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me? Wherefore the well was called Beerlahairoi.
Q7.Why did Hagar and Ishmael leave Abraham's household?
- A. Because Sarah saw Ishmael mocking Isaac after the feast ✓
- B. Because Hagar wanted to return to Egypt
- C. Because Abraham sent them away
- D. Because of famine
Answer: Because Sarah saw Ishmael mocking Isaac after the feast
And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking. Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son.
Q8.What did God tell Abraham about Ishmael's future?
- A. He would die young
- B. He would be great, and a father of twelve princes, and a great nation ✓
- C. He would serve Isaac forever
- D. He would return to Canaan
Answer: He would be great, and a father of twelve princes, and a great nation
And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.
Q9.What did God do when Hagar and Ishmael were dying of thirst in the wilderness?
- A. He ignored them
- B. He opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water ✓
- C. He sent angels with food
- D. He caused rain to fall
Answer: He opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water
And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.
Q10.What does Hagar's story demonstrate?
- A. That God sees and cares for the outcast and the afflicted ✓
- B. That slavery is good
- C. That polygamy is approved
- D. That Ishmael was Abraham's true heir
Answer: That God sees and cares for the outcast and the afflicted
God saw Hagar in her affliction, made promises to her, and provided for her in the wilderness — showing mercy to the marginalised.