Parable of the Wheat and the Tares 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 did the man sow in his field?
- A. Barley
- B. Good seed ✓
- C. Tares
- D. Mustard
Answer: Good seed
Which sowed good seed in his field.
Q2.Who sowed the tares?
- A. A neighbour
- B. His servants
- C. An enemy ✓
- D. A stranger
Answer: An enemy
His enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat.
Q3.When did the enemy sow them?
- A. At noon
- B. While men slept ✓
- C. At sunrise
- D. After harvest
Answer: While men slept
While men slept, his enemy came.
Q4.What did the servants ask the master?
- A. Shall we burn the field?
- B. Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? ✓
- C. Should we replant?
- D. Should we wait?
Answer: Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
Q5.What did the master say?
- A. Pluck them now
- B. Let both grow together until the harvest ✓
- C. Wait a week
- D. Cut down the wheat
Answer: Let both grow together until the harvest
Let both grow together until the harvest.
Q6.What is to be done with the tares at harvest?
- A. Sold
- B. Bound in bundles to burn ✓
- C. Ground for flour
- D. Replanted
Answer: Bound in bundles to burn
Bind them in bundles to burn them.
Q7.Who is the sower of the good seed?
- A. The angels
- B. The Son of man ✓
- C. The prophets
- D. The Father
Answer: The Son of man
He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man.
Q8.What is the field?
- A. Israel
- B. The world ✓
- C. The church
- D. Jerusalem
Answer: The world
The field is the world.
Q9.Who is the enemy?
- A. The world
- B. The devil ✓
- C. Death
- D. The flesh
Answer: The devil
The enemy that sowed them is the devil.
Q10.Who are the reapers?
- A. Men
- B. The angels ✓
- C. The prophets
- D. The apostles
Answer: The angels
The reapers are the angels.