Jonah Quiz

Answer key for Jonah Quiz

1. Q1: To which great city did the Lord command Jonah to go and cry against it? Answer: Nineveh. The Lord told Jonah to go to Nineveh because their wickedness was come up before Him. Reference: Jonah 1:2 (KJV).
2. Q2: To which city did Jonah intend to flee to escape the presence of the Lord? Answer: Tarshish. Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. Reference: Jonah 1:3 (KJV).
3. Q3: What was Jonah doing in the ship while the great tempest was raging? Answer: Fast asleep. Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship and was fast asleep. Reference: Jonah 1:5 (KJV).
4. Q4: How did the mariners determine who was responsible for the evil that befell them? Answer: They cast lots. They cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah. Reference: Jonah 1:7 (KJV).
5. Q5: How long was Jonah in the belly of the fish? Answer: Three days and three nights. Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. Reference: Jonah 1:17 (KJV).
6. Q6: What did Jonah say out of the fish's belly regarding his prayer? Answer: I cried by reason of mine affliction. Jonah said, 'I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord.' Reference: Jonah 2:2 (KJV).
7. Q7: What was the message Jonah preached to the people of Nineveh? Answer: Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. Jonah cried and said, 'Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.' Reference: Jonah 3:4 (KJV).
8. Q8: What did the King of Nineveh command the people and beasts to put on as a sign of repentance? Answer: Sackcloth. The king published a decree that both man and beast be covered with sackcloth. Reference: Jonah 3:8 (KJV).
9. Q9: What did God prepare to shadow Jonah from the heat of the sun? Answer: A gourd. The Lord God prepared a gourd to come up over Jonah to be a shadow over his head. Reference: Jonah 4:6 (KJV).
10. Q10: How many persons were in Nineveh that could not discern between their right hand and their left hand? Answer: More than six score thousand. The Lord noted there were more than six score thousand persons who could not discern their right hand from their left. Reference: Jonah 4:11 (KJV).