Hannah 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 Hannah's husband?
- A. Boaz
- B. Elkanah ✓
- C. Manoah
- D. Jesse
Answer: Elkanah
Now there was a certain man of Ramathaimzophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah.
Q2.What was Hannah's rival wife's name?
- A. Peninnah ✓
- B. Leah
- C. Rachel
- D. Deborah
Answer: Peninnah
And he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah.
Q3.Why was Hannah sorrowful?
- A. Because she had no children, and Peninnah provoked her ✓
- B. Because she was poor
- C. Because her husband did not love her
- D. Because she was sick
Answer: Because she had no children, and Peninnah provoked her
But Hannah had no children. And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.
Q4.Where did Hannah go to pray?
- A. To the temple in Jerusalem
- B. To the house of the LORD in Shiloh ✓
- C. To a cave
- D. To a mountain
Answer: To the house of the LORD in Shiloh
Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.
Q5.What did the priest Eli initially think Hannah was?
- A. A prophetess
- B. Drunken ✓
- C. A foreigner
- D. A thief
Answer: Drunken
And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.
Q6.What did Hannah vow to do if God gave her a son?
- A. Name him after her husband
- B. Give him to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall come upon his head ✓
- C. Build an altar
- D. Offer a thousand sheep
Answer: Give him to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall come upon his head
O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid… but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head.
Q7.What did Hannah name her son?
- A. Eli
- B. Samuel ✓
- C. Nathan
- D. Jonathan
Answer: Samuel
Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD.
Q8.How old was Samuel when Hannah brought him to the house of the LORD?
- A. Three years old
- B. About five or six, when weaned ✓
- C. Twelve years old
- D. One year old
Answer: About five or six, when weaned
And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her… and brought him unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and the child was young.
Q9.What did Hannah bring Samuel to Shiloh each year?
- A. A new coat
- B. A little ephod and a bullock, flour, and wine ✓
- C. Gold and silver
- D. Books
Answer: A little ephod and a bullock, flour, and wine
Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
Q10.What is Hannah's prayer in 1 Samuel 2 known as?
- A. The prayer of Hannah — a psalm of praise exalting the LORD ✓
- B. The covenant prayer
- C. The prayer of bitterness
- D. The mother's lament
Answer: The prayer of Hannah — a psalm of praise exalting the LORD
And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation.