Genesis: The Beginnings Quiz

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Genesis: The Beginnings Quiz: Scripture Study & Explanations

Genesis provides the divine account of cosmic creation, the tragic Fall in Eden, the pre-flood civilization, and the judgment of the Flood. It establishes fundamental doctrines of God's sovereignty, the sanctity of human life, and the first messianic promise in Genesis 3:15.

Quiz Study Sheet: Questions, Answers & Scripture Explanations

Q1.What did God create on the first day?

A) Sun and Moon
B) Light ✓
C) Animals
D) Plants
Scriptural Explanation: Genesis 1:3 - 'God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.'

Q2.From what did God form Adam?

A) Clay
B) Dust of the ground ✓
C) Rock
D) Water
Scriptural Explanation: Genesis 2:7 - 'Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.'

Q3.Which tree were Adam and Eve forbidden to eat from?

A) Tree of Life
B) Fig Tree
C) Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil ✓
D) Olive Tree
Scriptural Explanation: Genesis 2:17 - 'but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil...'

Q4.Why was Cain's offering rejected?

A) It was too small
B) It was not the firstfruits/blood sacrifice ✓
C) He offered it late
D) God didn't like vegetables
Scriptural Explanation: Genesis 4:4-5 - Abel brought fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering, but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor.

Q5.What kind of wood did Noah use to build the Ark?

A) Cedar
B) Gopher wood ✓
C) Oak
D) Acacia
Scriptural Explanation: Genesis 6:14 - 'Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.'

Q6.How long did it rain during the flood?

A) 7 days and 7 nights
B) 40 days and 40 nights ✓
C) 150 days
D) 3 months
Scriptural Explanation: Genesis 7:12 - 'The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.'

Q7.What sign did God give to show He would never flood the earth again?

A) A Dove
B) A Rainbow ✓
C) A Cloud
D) A Star
Scriptural Explanation: Genesis 9:13 - 'I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.'

Q8.Why did the people build the Tower of Babel?

A) To worship God
B) To see the stars
C) To make a name for themselves ✓
D) To hide from a flood
Scriptural Explanation: Genesis 11:4 - 'They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves...”'

Q9.What did God do to stop the building of the Tower of Babel?

A) Destroyed the tower
B) Confused their language ✓
C) Sent a plague
D) Sent fire
Scriptural Explanation: Genesis 11:7 - 'Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”'

Q10.Who was the oldest man mentioned in the Bible?

A) Adam
B) Noah
C) Methuselah ✓
D) Enoch
Scriptural Explanation: Genesis 5:27 - 'All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years, then he died.'

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