Jonah 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.To which great city did the Lord command Jonah to go and cry against it?
- A. Tarshish
- B. Nineveh ✓
- C. Joppa
- D. Babylon
Answer: Nineveh
The Lord told Jonah to go to Nineveh because their wickedness was come up before Him.
Q2.To which city did Jonah intend to flee to escape the presence of the Lord?
- A. Tarshish ✓
- B. Nineveh
- C. Joppa
- D. Jerusalem
Answer: Tarshish
Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.
Q3.What was Jonah doing in the ship while the great tempest was raging?
- A. Praying to God
- B. Helping the mariners
- C. Fast asleep ✓
- D. Casting lots
Answer: Fast asleep
Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship and was fast asleep.
Q4.How did the mariners determine who was responsible for the evil that befell them?
- A. They asked the captain
- B. They cast lots ✓
- C. They prayed to the Lord
- D. They searched the cargo
Answer: They cast lots
They cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.
Q5.How long was Jonah in the belly of the fish?
- A. One day and one night
- B. Seven days and seven nights
- C. Three days and three nights ✓
- D. Forty days and forty nights
Answer: Three days and three nights
Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
Q6.What did Jonah say out of the fish's belly regarding his prayer?
- A. I cried by reason of mine affliction ✓
- B. I will never leave this place
- C. The Lord hath forgotten me
- D. I am happy in the deep
Answer: I cried by reason of mine affliction
Jonah said, 'I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord.'
Q7.What was the message Jonah preached to the people of Nineveh?
- A. Repent or be burned
- B. Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown ✓
- C. The Lord loves you
- D. Sacrifice your cattle to the Lord
Answer: Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown
Jonah cried and said, 'Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.'
Q8.What did the King of Nineveh command the people and beasts to put on as a sign of repentance?
- A. Fine linen
- B. Sackcloth ✓
- C. Purple robes
- D. Gold chains
Answer: Sackcloth
The king published a decree that both man and beast be covered with sackcloth.
Q9.What did God prepare to shadow Jonah from the heat of the sun?
- A. A cloud
- B. A tent
- C. A gourd ✓
- D. An oak tree
Answer: A gourd
The Lord God prepared a gourd to come up over Jonah to be a shadow over his head.
Q10.How many persons were in Nineveh that could not discern between their right hand and their left hand?
- A. More than twelve thousand
- B. More than six score thousand ✓
- C. Exactly forty thousand
- D. Ten thousand
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.