Pharaoh Bible 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 new Pharaoh not know about Joseph?
- A. His wisdom
- B. His dreams
- C. His service to Egypt ✓
- D. His family
Answer: His service to Egypt
Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph. (Exodus 1:8)
Q2.What command did Pharaoh give regarding Hebrew baby boys?
- A. Educate them in Egyptian ways
- B. Cast them into the river ✓
- C. Make them soldiers
- D. Send them away
Answer: Cast them into the river
And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive. (Exodus 1:22)
Q3.What did Moses ask Pharaoh to let Israel do?
- A. Fight in his army
- B. Go three days' journey into the wilderness to sacrifice ✓
- C. Build him cities
- D. Mine gold
Answer: Go three days' journey into the wilderness to sacrifice
Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness. (Exodus 5:1)
Q4.What did Pharaoh do when Moses first asked him to let Israel go?
- A. He agreed immediately
- B. He increased the Israelites' labor by making them gather their own straw ✓
- C. He sent them away
- D. He imprisoned Moses
Answer: He increased the Israelites' labor by making them gather their own straw
Ye are idle, ye are idle... Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein... And the tale of the bricks... shall be diminished. (Exodus 5:17-19)
Q5.How many plagues did God send upon Egypt?
- A. Seven
- B. Eight
- C. Ten ✓
- D. Twelve
Answer: Ten
Ten plagues were sent, culminating in the death of the firstborn. (Exodus 7-12)
Q6.Which plague was the first one that Pharaoh's magicians could not duplicate?
- A. Blood
- B. Frogs
- C. Lice ✓
- D. Flies
Answer: Lice
Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This is the finger of God: and Pharaoh's heart was hardened. (Exodus 8:18-19)
Q7.Which plague killed the Egyptian firstborn but spared Israel?
- A. The plague of darkness
- B. The plague of hail
- C. The death of the firstborn ✓
- D. The plague of locusts
Answer: The death of the firstborn
And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt... but against any of the children of Israel... not a dog shall move his tongue. (Exodus 12:29)
Q8.What did Pharaoh say after the death of the firstborn?
- A. Stay in Egypt forever
- B. Rise up, and get you forth from among my people... and bless me also ✓
- C. I will follow you
- D. You may go, but leave your cattle
Answer: Rise up, and get you forth from among my people... and bless me also
And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians... And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people... and bless me also. (Exodus 12:30-32)
Q9.What did Pharaoh do after Israel left?
- A. Let them go permanently
- B. Hardened his heart and pursued them with his army ✓
- C. Sent them gifts
- D. Built them a monument
Answer: Hardened his heart and pursued them with his army
And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people... And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt. (Exodus 14:5-7)
Q10.What happened to Pharaoh and his army at the Red Sea?
- A. They returned to Egypt safely
- B. They captured Israel
- C. The LORD overthrew them in the sea ✓
- D. They made peace
Answer: The LORD overthrew them in the sea
And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them. (Exodus 14:28)