WorksheetsWisdom Quiz v.2 (2025)
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
Identify the book that the following passage is from: "A person gains honor by avoiding strife, while every fool starts a quarrel"
Proverbs
Psalms
Song of Songs
Ecclesiastes
Job
Identify the book that the following passage is from: "Do you know when mountain goats are born, or watch for the birth pangs of deer, Number the months that they must fulfill, or know when they give birth? He responded to the Lord: I know that you can do all things, I have spoken but did not understand; things too marvelous for me, which I did not know."
Proverbs
Psalms
Song of Songs
Ecclesiastes
Job
Identify the book that the following passage is from: "There is an appointed time for everything, and a time for every affair under the heavens A time to give birth, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to uproot the plant."
Proverbs
Psalms
Song of Songs
Ecclesiastes
Job
Identify the book that the following passage is from: "One person is lavish yet grows still richer; another is too sparing, yet is the poorer"
Proverbs
Psalms
Song of Songs
Ecclesiastes
Job
Identify the book that the following passage is from: "In the land of Uz there was a blameless and upright man..., who feared God and avoided evil."
Proverbs
Psalms
Song of Songs
Ecclesiastes
Job
Identify the book that the following passage is from: "Turn your eyes away from me, for they stir me up. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down from Gilead. Your teeth are like a flock of ewes that come up from the washing,"
Proverbs
Psalms
Song of Songs
Ecclesiastes
Job
Identify the book that the following passage is from: "Vanity of vanities, says Qoheleth, vanity of vanities! All things are vanity!.",
Proverbs
Psalms
Song of Songs
Ecclesiastes
Job
Which of the following is not a book of Wisdom?
Sirach
Song of Songs
Acts of the Apostles
Job
They are all Wisdom.
What is driving question behind the book of Proverbs?
How to live a good life?
Why do people suffer if God made them?
How should one best love their spouse?
Who is the greatest of all people?
In the book of Proverbs Wisdom is personified as a greek woman named _________?
Sophia
Athena
Diana
Hera
Which of the following does the book of Proverbs claim is "nice, but should not come in conflict with peace?"
Honesty
Sobriety
Wealth
Kindness
Wisdom begins with...
fear of the Lord
knowledge of science
love of money
power over others
desire for fame
Job has everything taken away from him because...
he had broken a number of Levitical laws.
the adversary (satan) wanted to prove that he was not genuinely good.
God wanted him to be grateful for all that he had.
he was paying for the sins of his ancestors.
Job is mostly without blame, but does some things to deserve punishment.
True
False
The Hebrew word hevel that refers to the unpredictability of life is best translated...
smoke
beasts
Fear of the Lord
vanity
Which of the following is NOT a perspective of the critic in the book of Ecclesiastes?
Generations come and go, we are simply a blip on the cosmic scale.
We are all going to die, no matter if we are righteous or not.
Life is unclear and unpredictable.
The righteous will receive their reward in life and the wicked will be punished with suffering.
What Hebrew word means Writings and includes the Wisdom books?
Neviim
Torah
Ketuvim
Ruah
In Ecclesiastes, what is the author's conclusion after he states that all of life is futile?
We should not care about life, it does not matter what we do.
Life is nothing, moral right and wrong is relative to our social construct.
Action was long ago appointed by God and so we should do whatever is in our power to do. (And do it well)
The Lord will guide us if we let him bring us to righteousness. We are responsible for our suffering.
The Proverbs warn against excessive _________.
drinking
eating
sleeping
talking
spending
Many of the books of Wisdom are attributed to what major character in the Hebrew bible (though likely not written by him)?
Moses
Solomon
David
Elijah
The Song of Songs is believed by Christians or Jews to be an allegory for:
The love between God and His people
The creation of the world
The laws of Moses
The story of Exodus
St. Augustine says that "Evil is not a thing," this means:
Evil is a substance that exists on its own.
Evil is the absence of good, not a created thing.
Evil is more powerful than good.
Evil is a physical object.
The book of Job explains the suffering of Job by a good and just God as:
A test of faith and righteousness.
A punishment for Job's sins.
A result of fate and chance.
An act of divine neglect.
Reflection question: why do human beings suffer if there is a good and just God?
Because suffering is a test of faith
Because God is not just
Because humans are inherently evil
Because suffering is meaningless
Extra Credit: Name one of the four artists on the board.
Leonardo da Vinci
Albert Einstein
Isaac Newton
Marie Curie
