Bible test on Jonah

1. Jonah was born in what city of Israel?

• Ninevah

• Gath-hepher

• Bethlehem

1. Jonah lived between what times?

• 400 and 450 BC

• 200 and 250 AD

• 785 and 760 BC

1. What important task did God give to Jonah?

• preaching to Nineveh to warn the people that God had seen their wickedness and that He was about to judge them.

• preaching to Bethlehem to tell that Jesus is coming soon

• preaching to Babylon to warn the people that God had seen their wickedness and that He was about to judge them.

1. Ninevah was the capital of what country?

• Assyria

• Babylon

• Egypt

1. Jonah was frightened to go to that city, what did he do instead?

• He rode a donkey to Egypt to escape from God

• He bought a ticket and went on board, hoping to escape

  from the Lord by sailing to Tarshish

• He flew a plane to Russia to escape from what God had planned for him to do

1. What did God do in return?

• But God sent a huge storm over the sea

• God sent a sand storm to take over the sea

• God sent a water spout and swallowed up the boat

1. When the storm came where was Jonah?

• He was on deck screaming and crying with everyone

• He was reading a book below deck

• Jonah was sound asleep down in the bottom of the ship

1. What did the captain tell Jonah to do?

• “Get up! Pray to your god! Maybe he will pay attention to you and spare our lives.”

• Get up and help us throw some of these bags over board

• We need to sing and dance for we are about to die

1. What did the sailors decided to do?

• The sailors decided they should draw straws to find out who was the cause of the storm.

• The sailors played rock, paper, scissors to find out who was the cause of the storm.

• The sailors decided that the shortest person on board was the cause of the storm.

1. Who had the short straw?