Bible Quiz on Jeremiah
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. What did Jeremiah see in the first vision recorded after his calling?
A basket of ripe summer fruit
A lampstand surrounded by olive trees
A branch from an almond tree
A valley filled with dry bones
2. In the temple sermon, which mistaken belief did Jeremiah challenge?
That sacrifices could never be offered outside Jerusalem
That possessing the Lord’s temple guaranteed protection despite persistent wrongdoing
That only priests were responsible for keeping the covenant
That Babylon lacked the military strength to attack Judah
3. Why did Jeremiah buy a field at Anathoth while Jerusalem was under threat?
He expected to make an immediate profit by selling it to Babylonian officers.
He needed the land to hide Baruch and the prophetic scroll.
The field would exempt his family from the consequences of the siege.
The purchase acted as a sign that property would again be bought in the land.
4. Which development near the end of Jeremiah best shows that the book closes with both catastrophe and a small sign of changed circumstances?
The temple survives the conquest, but the ark is carried to Egypt.
Zedekiah defeats Babylon, but Jeremiah chooses to remain in prison.
Jerusalem falls, but Josiah returns to restore worship.
Jerusalem falls, and the imprisoned Judean king Jehoiachin is later released and treated favorably in Babylon.
5. Jeremiah wore a yoke during conflict with false assurances about Babylon. What did the yoke signify?
A command that all exiles return to Jerusalem without delay
A promise that Judah would immediately regain political independence
Jeremiah’s transfer from prophetic service to farm labor
Submission to Babylon’s rule as part of the judgment Jeremiah announced
6. Hananiah predicted that Babylon’s yoke would soon be broken. What later happened in Jeremiah 28?
He died after Jeremiah declared that his message had encouraged rebellion against the Lord.
He was taken to Babylon and appointed over the exiles.
He became Jeremiah’s scribe and recorded a revised prophecy.
He succeeded Jeremiah as the recognized prophet in Jerusalem.
7. What happened when Baruch’s scroll containing Jeremiah’s words was read before King Jehoiakim?
The king placed it in the temple archive and ordered annual readings.
The king cut off sections and burned them in the fire.
The king repented publicly and declared a national fast.
The king sent the scroll unchanged to Babylon as a warning.
8. Jeremiah describes the people as abandoning a spring of living water and digging broken cisterns. Which interpretation best fits this metaphor?
They left rural wells because Jerusalem’s water system was more dependable.
They abandoned God and relied on substitutes that could not sustain them.
They rejected agricultural work in order to become merchants.
They refused the ritual washing required before entering the temple.
9. According to Jeremiah 1, what did God say about Jeremiah’s calling?
God appointed him to replace King Josiah on Judah’s throne.
God called him only after he had served as a temple priest for many years.
God appointed him as a prophet to the nations before his birth.
God sent him exclusively to the exiles already living in Babylon.
10. How long did Jeremiah say Babylonian domination and the associated desolation would last?
Forty years
Seventy years
Twelve years
Three years
11. After observing a potter reshape spoiled clay, what lesson was Jeremiah told to communicate?
God could reshape a nation’s announced outcome in response to its conduct.
Judah’s future had been fixed and could not be affected by any response.
Only craftsmen who worked for the temple could understand divine revelation.
Jerusalem would defeat Babylon by producing stronger clay defenses.
12. Why are the Rechabites presented as a pointed comparison for Judah?
They obeyed their ancestor’s instructions, while Judah repeatedly ignored God’s commands.
They rebuilt the temple while Judah’s leaders refused to contribute.
They defeated Babylon without relying on Egypt’s army.
They wrote Jeremiah’s prophecies after Baruch abandoned the task.
13. A reader encounters Jeremiah’s vision of a boiling pot tipping from the north. What does the image primarily announce?
Disaster advancing against Judah from the north
The cleansing of the temple through priestly sacrifice
A famine caused by Judah’s failure to store grain
The peaceful return of the northern tribes to Jerusalem
14. Who arranged for Jeremiah to be lifted from the muddy cistern where officials had placed him?
Baruch
King Jehoiakim
The prophet Hananiah
Ebed-melech the Cushite
15. Where does Jeremiah say God’s law will be written under the promised new covenant?
On a replacement set of stone tablets kept in the temple
On the gates and defensive walls of Jerusalem
Within the people, on their hearts
On scrolls distributed among every nation
16. A family among the Judean exiles wonders how to live during a long stay in Babylon. Which advice most closely matches Jeremiah’s letter to the exiles?
Avoid homes, marriage, and community ties because the exile will end within months.
Leave Babylon secretly and establish a new kingdom in Egypt.
Build settled lives and seek the welfare of the city where they have been taken.
Refuse all work until Babylon permits the temple to be rebuilt.