Lamentations 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.How doth the city sit solitary, that was once full of what?
- A. Gold
- B. People ✓
- C. Soldiers
- D. Vineyards
Answer: People
The book begins by mourning the emptiness of the once-crowded city.
Q2.To what does the writer compare the daughter of Jerusalem in her misery?
- A. A widow ✓
- B. A broken reed
- C. A withered flower
- D. A lost sheep
Answer: A widow
She that was great among the nations is become as a widow.
Q3.The Lord's mercies are new every what?
- A. Sabbath
- B. Year
- C. Morning ✓
- D. Evening
Answer: Morning
Great is His faithfulness; His compassions fail not and are new every morning.
Q4.What did the prophet's eyes fail with because of the destruction?
- A. Dust
- B. Tears ✓
- C. Blindness
- D. Sleep
Answer: Tears
Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled.
Q5.It is good for a man that he bear what in his youth?
- A. The sword
- B. The yoke ✓
- C. The crown
- D. The harvest
Answer: The yoke
The text encourages bearing the yoke of discipline early in life.
Q6.To what is the skin of the people compared because of the terrible famine?
- A. An oven ✓
- B. Dry parchment
- C. White snow
- D. Ash
Answer: An oven
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
Q7.The precious sons of Zion were comparable to what, but are now esteemed as earthen pitchers?
- A. Silver
- B. Fine gold ✓
- C. Diamonds
- D. Cedars
Answer: Fine gold
The sons of Zion were comparable to fine gold.
Q8.What has happened to the crown of the people according to the final chapter?
- A. It is stolen
- B. It is fallen from our head ✓
- C. It is melted
- D. It is hidden in the earth
Answer: It is fallen from our head
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
Q9.The Lord hath covered the daughter of Zion with what in his anger?
- A. A cloud ✓
- B. Sackcloth
- C. Darkness
- D. Shame
Answer: A cloud
How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger.
Q10.What does the writer ask the Lord to renew as of old?
- A. Our strength
- B. Our temple
- C. Our days ✓
- D. Our covenant
Answer: Our days
Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord... renew our days as of old.