WorksheetsThe Story of Yonah
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
The haftarah for Yom Kippur afternoon is known as...…?
Maftir Rut
Maftir Shmuel
Maftir Kohelet
Maftir Yonah
Yonah is read on Yom Kippur because?
It is a story about not eating food
It is a story of teshuvah
It is a story about wearing white
It is a story about not wearing leather
Why was Yonah instructed by Hashem to travel to the non-Jewish city of Nineveh?
Yonah was to warn them that if they did not do teshuvah, then the city would be destroyed.
Yonah was to tell them good news.
Yonah was to help them build a tower
Yonah was to tell them Hashem was happy with them
Jonah decided to escape and run away from who?
His home
His job
His wife
Hashem
The ship Yonah boarded, where was it going too?
Tarshish
Tyre
Alexandria
London
Once Yonah had set sail on the ship, Hashem caused a what?
a rainbow
a headache
A storm
A leak
The captain of the ship, seeing the sleeping man, went over to him and told him off for sleeping during a storm, instead of...….. what?
getting the life boats
helping the captain
Praying to his G-d
Helping the sailors
Meanwhile the sailors drew lots to find out whose fault it was that this storm had been brought upon them. Who's name was it?
the sailors
the captain
Yonah
the other travellers
Meanwhile the sailors drew lots to find out whose fault it was that this storm had been brought upon them. The lot fell upon Jonah. When the sailors questioned him as to who he was, where he had come from, and what his business was, he told them what?
that he was a Jew
a servant of Hashem the Creator of heaven and earth
that he was a prophet
The sailors asked what they should do in order to quiet the raging sea and save their ship. What did Yonah tell them?
all they had to do was to throw him overboard
Continue praying
get the life boats ready
abandon ship
Why did Hashem bring the storm against the ship?
because Yonah didn't pray to Hashem
because Yonah had disobeyed Hashem
because Yonah answered back
because Yonah was on a ship
As soon as Jonah was in the water what did Hashem send?
dry land
another ship
A rainbow
A big fish
How long was Yonah in the fish for?
40 days and 40 nights
3 days 3 nights
2 days 2 nights
4 days and 4 nights
What did Yonah do while he was in the fish?
Did teshuvah
slept
rested
waited
Yonah travelled to Nineveh to carry out his mission. When he arrival in the city, Jonah stepped right into the middle of the busy city square and announced that the city would, what?
become small
become even larger
Be rewarded by Hashem
Be destroyed in forty days
In the City of Nineveh who did Teshuvah?
The king
the people of the city
the children
everyone in the city
