Jeremiah 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.When did God say He knew Jeremiah?
- A. After his birth
- B. Before he was formed in the belly ✓
- C. At his anointing
- D. In his youth
Answer: Before he was formed in the belly
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee.
Q2.How did Jeremiah at first object to God's call?
- A. I am unclean
- B. I cannot speak: for I am a child ✓
- C. Send my brother
- D. I am too old
Answer: I cannot speak: for I am a child
Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.
Q3.To what nation would Judah be carried captive?
- A. Egypt
- B. Babylon ✓
- C. Assyria
- D. Persia
Answer: Babylon
And they shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Q4.How many years did Jeremiah say the captivity would last?
- A. 40 years
- B. 70 years ✓
- C. 100 years
- D. 10 years
Answer: 70 years
These nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Q5.Into what was Jeremiah cast for his prophesying?
- A. A lions' den
- B. A dungeon of mire ✓
- C. A fiery furnace
- D. The stocks
Answer: A dungeon of mire
They cast him into the dungeon… and in the dungeon there was no water, but mire.
Q6.What new covenant did God promise through Jeremiah?
- A. A covenant of sacrifices
- B. A law written in their hearts ✓
- C. A covenant of land
- D. A covenant of priests
Answer: A law written in their hearts
I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts.
Q7.What famous verse promises hope and a future?
- A. Jeremiah 29:11 ✓
- B. Jeremiah 33:3
- C. Jeremiah 17:9
- D. Jeremiah 1:5
Answer: Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you… thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Q8.How does Jeremiah describe the human heart?
- A. Pure
- B. Deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked ✓
- C. Searching after God
- D. Soft and tender
Answer: Deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
Q9.Who was Jeremiah's faithful scribe?
- A. Ezra
- B. Baruch ✓
- C. Gehazi
- D. Elisha
Answer: Baruch
Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote… all the words of the LORD.
Q10.What book of the Bible is traditionally also attributed to Jeremiah?
- A. Ezekiel
- B. Lamentations ✓
- C. Daniel
- D. Hosea
Answer: Lamentations
Lamentations laments the fall of Jerusalem.