Parable of the Sower 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.What went forth in the parable?
- A. A shepherd
- B. A sower ✓
- C. A fisherman
- D. A merchant
Answer: A sower
Behold, a sower went forth to sow.
Q2.What happened to the seed by the way side?
- A. It withered
- B. The fowls devoured it ✓
- C. Thorns choked it
- D. It bore fruit
Answer: The fowls devoured it
The fowls came and devoured them up.
Q3.Why did the seed on stony places spring up quickly?
- A. Strong sun
- B. It had no deepness of earth ✓
- C. Good rain
- D. It was the best seed
Answer: It had no deepness of earth
Because they had no deepness of earth.
Q4.What scorched the seed on stony ground?
- A. Wind
- B. Frost
- C. The sun ✓
- D. Fire
Answer: The sun
When the sun was up, they were scorched.
Q5.What choked the seed among thorns?
- A. Birds
- B. The thorns sprang up ✓
- C. Heat
- D. Drought
Answer: The thorns sprang up
The thorns sprung up, and choked them.
Q6.What does the seed represent?
- A. The kingdom
- B. The word of God ✓
- C. Faith
- D. The gospel preacher
Answer: The word of God
Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
Q7.Who takes away the seed sown by the way side?
- A. The world
- B. The wicked one ✓
- C. Trouble
- D. Tribulation
Answer: The wicked one
Then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown.
Q8.What chokes the seed sown among thorns?
- A. Riches and persecution
- B. The care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches ✓
- C. Fear and doubt
- D. Hunger and thirst
Answer: The care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches
The care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word.
Q9.What yields did the good ground bring forth?
- A. Tenfold only
- B. Some thirty, some sixty, some an hundredfold ✓
- C. A thousandfold
- D. Sevenfold
Answer: Some thirty, some sixty, some an hundredfold
Some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.
Q10.Why did Jesus speak to the multitude in parables?
- A. To entertain
- B. Because seeing they see not ✓
- C. To shorten His sermons
- D. For the children
Answer: Because seeing they see not
Because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not.