The Tabernacle 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 materials were the tabernacle curtains made of?
- A. Linen only
- B. Fine twined linen, blue, purple, and scarlet ✓
- C. Wool and cotton
- D. Silk and gold
Answer: Fine twined linen, blue, purple, and scarlet
Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet.
Q2.What covered the tabernacle on the outside?
- A. Gold plates
- B. Badgers' skins / ram skins dyed red and goats' hair ✓
- C. Silver sheets
- D. Leather
Answer: Badgers' skins / ram skins dyed red and goats' hair
And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering above of badgers' skins.
Q3.What stood in the most holy place?
- A. The altar of incense
- B. The table of shewbread
- C. The ark of the covenant ✓
- D. The candlestick
Answer: The ark of the covenant
And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.
Q4.What was kept inside the ark of the covenant?
- A. Gold only
- B. The tables of testimony / covenant, a golden pot of manna, and Aaron's rod ✓
- C. Incense
- D. The priestly garments
Answer: The tables of testimony / covenant, a golden pot of manna, and Aaron's rod
The ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant.
Q5.What was on top of the ark?
- A. A golden crown
- B. The mercy seat with cherubim ✓
- C. A candle
- D. A veil
Answer: The mercy seat with cherubim
And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof. And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold.
Q6.What three pieces of furniture were in the holy place?
- A. The ark, the altar, and the laver
- B. The candlestick, the table of shewbread, and the altar of incense ✓
- C. The throne, the seat, and the footstool
- D. The pulpit, the font, and the cross
Answer: The candlestick, the table of shewbread, and the altar of incense
And thou shalt set the table without the vail, and the candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south: and thou shalt put the table on the north side.
Q7.What was the bronze laver used for?
- A. Offering sacrifices
- B. Washing of hands and feet ✓
- C. Burning incense
- D. Storing water
Answer: Washing of hands and feet
Thou shalt also make a laver of brass, and his foot also of brass, to wash withal: and thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein. For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat.
Q8.Who could enter the most holy place?
- A. Any priest
- B. The high priest alone, once a year ✓
- C. All Israelites
- D. The king
Answer: The high priest alone, once a year
But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people.
Q9.What does Hebrews 9:11 say Christ entered?
- A. The earthly tabernacle
- B. The greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands ✓
- C. A new temple in Jerusalem
- D. Heaven immediately without sacrifice
Answer: The greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands
But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building.
Q10.What did the tabernacle's structure foreshadow?
- A. A permanent temple in Jerusalem
- B. Heavenly things and the person and work of Christ ✓
- C. The Roman government
- D. The Jewish monarchy
Answer: Heavenly things and the person and work of Christ
Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.