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The Story of Yonah

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 8mins

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Class
Date
1.

The haftarah for Yom Kippur afternoon is known as...…?

a)

Maftir Rut

b)

Maftir Shmuel

c)

Maftir Kohelet

d)

Maftir Yonah

2.

Yonah is read on Yom Kippur because?

a)

It is a story about not eating food

b)

It is a story of teshuvah

c)

It is a story about wearing white

d)

It is a story about not wearing leather

3.

Why was Yonah instructed by Hashem to travel to the non-Jewish city of Nineveh?

a)

Yonah was to warn them that if they did not do teshuvah, then the city would be destroyed.

b)

Yonah was to tell them good news.

c)

Yonah was to help them build a tower

d)

Yonah was to tell them Hashem was happy with them

4.

Jonah decided to escape and run away from who?

a)

His home

b)

His job

c)

His wife

d)

Hashem

5.

The ship Yonah boarded, where was it going too?

a)

Tarshish

b)

Tyre

c)

Alexandria

d)

London

6.

Once Yonah had set sail on the ship, Hashem caused a what?

a)

a rainbow

b)

a headache

c)

A storm

d)

A leak

7.

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?

a)

getting the life boats

b)

helping the captain

c)

Praying to his G-d

d)

Helping the sailors

8.

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?

a)

the sailors

b)

the captain

c)

Yonah

d)

the other travellers

9.

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?

a)

that he was a Jew

b)

a servant of Hashem the Creator of heaven and earth

c)

that he was a prophet

10.

The sailors asked what they should do in order to quiet the raging sea and save their ship. What did Yonah tell them?

a)

all they had to do was to throw him overboard

b)

Continue praying

c)

get the life boats ready

d)

abandon ship

11.

Why did Hashem bring the storm against the ship?

a)

because Yonah didn't pray to Hashem

b)

because Yonah had disobeyed Hashem

c)

because Yonah answered back

d)

because Yonah was on a ship

12.

As soon as Jonah was in the water what did Hashem send?

a)

dry land

b)

another ship

c)

A rainbow

d)

A big fish

13.

How long was Yonah in the fish for?

a)

40 days and 40 nights

b)

3 days 3 nights

c)

2 days 2 nights

d)

4 days and 4 nights

14.

What did Yonah do while he was in the fish?

a)

Did teshuvah

b)

slept

c)

rested

d)

waited

15.

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?

a)

become small

b)

become even larger

c)

Be rewarded by Hashem

d)

Be destroyed in forty days

16.

In the City of Nineveh who did Teshuvah?

a)

The king

b)

the people of the city

c)

the children

d)

everyone in the city