Jonah 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.Where was Jonah sent to preach?
- A. Nineveh ✓
- B. Tyre
- C. Babylon
- D. Damascus
Answer: Nineveh
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
Q2.Where did Jonah try to flee to?
- A. Tarshish ✓
- B. Egypt
- C. Tyre
- D. Joppa
Answer: Tarshish
But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.
Q3.From what port did Jonah set sail?
- A. Joppa ✓
- B. Tyre
- C. Sidon
- D. Caesarea
Answer: Joppa
And he went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish.
Q4.What did the LORD send upon the sea?
- A. A great wind ✓
- B. A pillar of fire
- C. A flood
- D. A whirlwind only
Answer: A great wind
But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea.
Q5.How was Jonah cast lots upon?
- A. The lot fell upon him to know for whose cause the evil was upon them ✓
- B. He confessed first
- C. The captain accused him
- D. The sailors guessed
Answer: The lot fell upon him to know for whose cause the evil was upon them
And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.
Q6.What did God prepare to swallow Jonah?
- A. A great fish ✓
- B. A whale only
- C. A sea monster
- D. A leviathan
Answer: A great fish
Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
Q7.How long was Jonah in the fish?
- A. Three days and three nights ✓
- B. Seven days
- C. One day
- D. Forty days
Answer: Three days and three nights
And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
Q8.What did Jonah preach in Nineveh?
- A. Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown ✓
- B. Repent, for the kingdom is at hand
- C. The LORD is one
- D. Peace be unto you
Answer: Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown
And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
Q9.What did God prepare to shade Jonah?
- A. A gourd ✓
- B. A fig tree
- C. A cedar
- D. A cloud
Answer: A gourd
And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head.
Q10.What did God prepare to smite the gourd?
- A. A worm ✓
- B. A wind
- C. A fire
- D. A locust
Answer: A worm
But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.