Queen Esther Quiz for Kids — Questions & Answers
All 10 questions with the correct answer, a one-sentence explanation, and the King James verse reference. Use this page as an answer key, a study sheet, or a quick review.
Q1.Who raised Esther after her parents died?
- A. Mordecai her cousin ✓
- B. An angel
- C. The king
- D. A neighbour
Answer: Mordecai her cousin
Mordecai… took her for his own daughter.
Q2.Who was the king of Persia in Esther's day?
- A. Cyrus
- B. Darius
- C. Ahasuerus ✓
- D. Nebuchadnezzar
Answer: Ahasuerus
The king Ahasuerus loved Esther above all the women.
Q3.What did the king do for Esther?
- A. Sent her away
- B. Set the royal crown on her head and made her queen ✓
- C. Asked for money
- D. Built her a temple
Answer: Set the royal crown on her head and made her queen
Set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen.
Q4.Who was the wicked man who plotted against the Jews?
- A. Mordecai
- B. Haman ✓
- C. Bigthan
- D. Memucan
Answer: Haman
Haman… sought to destroy all the Jews.
Q5.What did Mordecai tell Esther about her place as queen?
- A. Hide
- B. Who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this? ✓
- C. Run away
- D. Resign
Answer: Who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
Who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
Q6.What did Esther ask her people to do first?
- A. Fight
- B. Fast for her three days ✓
- C. Sing
- D. Sleep
Answer: Fast for her three days
Fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days.
Q7.What brave words did Esther say about going to the king?
- A. I will not go
- B. If I perish, I perish ✓
- C. I will hide
- D. Send someone else
Answer: If I perish, I perish
If I perish, I perish.
Q8.What did the king hold out to welcome Esther into his court?
- A. A sword
- B. The golden sceptre ✓
- C. A scroll
- D. His crown
Answer: The golden sceptre
The king held out to Esther the golden sceptre.
Q9.What happened to wicked Haman?
- A. He repented
- B. He was hanged on the gallows he made for Mordecai ✓
- C. He ran away
- D. He became a friend
Answer: He was hanged on the gallows he made for Mordecai
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai.
Q10.What feast remembers how God saved the Jews through Esther?
- A. Passover
- B. Purim ✓
- C. Tabernacles
- D. Pentecost
Answer: Purim
They called these days Purim after the name of Pur.