Parable of the Pearl of Great Price 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 whom is the kingdom of heaven likened in this parable?
- A. A king
- B. A merchant man ✓
- C. A farmer
- D. A fisherman
Answer: A merchant man
The kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man.
Q2.What was the merchant seeking?
- A. Treasure
- B. Goodly pearls ✓
- C. A field
- D. Bread
Answer: Goodly pearls
Seeking goodly pearls.
Q3.What did he do when he found one of great price?
- A. Borrowed money
- B. Sold all that he had, and bought it ✓
- C. Stole it
- D. Refused it
Answer: Sold all that he had, and bought it
Sold all that he had, and bought it.
Q4.What parable comes just before this one?
- A. The Sower
- B. The Hidden Treasure ✓
- C. The Talents
- D. The Net
Answer: The Hidden Treasure
The kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field.
Q5.What did the man find hidden in the field?
- A. Silver
- B. A scroll
- C. A treasure ✓
- D. Bones
Answer: A treasure
The which when a man hath found, he hideth.
Q6.What did he do upon finding the treasure?
- A. Told no one
- B. Went and sold all that he had, and bought that field ✓
- C. Reported it to the king
- D. Gave it away
Answer: Went and sold all that he had, and bought that field
For joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.
Q7.What parable follows the pearl in Matthew 13?
- A. The leaven
- B. The net cast into the sea ✓
- C. The sower
- D. The wheat and tares
Answer: The net cast into the sea
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net.
Q8.What does the pearl chiefly teach?
- A. Wealth is wisdom
- B. The kingdom is worth everything ✓
- C. Trade is honourable
- D. Sacrifice is optional
Answer: The kingdom is worth everything
The kingdom of God is the supreme treasure.
Q9.Which verse warns about laying up treasures on earth?
- A. Matthew 5:8
- B. Matthew 6:19 ✓
- C. Matthew 7:7
- D. Matthew 10:39
Answer: Matthew 6:19
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth.
Q10.What twelve gates of the New Jerusalem are made of pearls?
- A. Twelve pearls, one pearl per gate ✓
- B. Twelve sapphires
- C. Twelve emeralds
- D. Twelve jaspers
Answer: Twelve pearls, one pearl per gate
The twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl.