Ruth Bible Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. Ruth wonders why Boaz has shown favor to her even though she is a foreigner. What does Boaz’s answer emphasize?
Her family had once given him land in Moab
Naomi had paid him to supervise Ruth
He believed Ruth belonged to a wealthy Israelite family
He had heard about Ruth’s care for Naomi and her choice to leave her homeland
2. What combined commitment does Boaz publicly announce before the elders and townspeople?
He will return the property to Moab and adopt Naomi as his daughter
He will acquire Elimelech’s property and take Ruth as his wife to preserve the deceased man’s family name
He will divide the property among his harvest workers and send Ruth away
He will keep the land temporarily until the next harvest is complete
3. According to the book’s opening, during what period did the events of Ruth begin?
During the reign of King Solomon
When the judges ruled Israel
During Israel’s exile in Babylon
After Jerusalem’s walls were rebuilt
4. What concern does the nearer guardian-redeemer give for declining to redeem the property and take Ruth?
He is moving away from Bethlehem
He fears endangering or impairing his own inheritance
He does not recognize Elimelech’s family claim
He has not gathered enough barley
5. A landowner permits a poor foreigner to collect stalks left behind by harvesters. Which practice from Ruth does this describe?
Gleaning
Tithing
Keeping the Sabbath year
Offering firstborn livestock
6. What was the name of the son born to Ruth and Boaz?
Mahlon
Obed
Jesse
Perez
7. Why was Boaz especially significant when Ruth happened to glean in his field?
He had traveled with Naomi from Moab
He was serving as Israel’s judge
He was a prominent relative from Elimelech’s family
He was Ruth’s brother-in-law
8. At the threshing floor, Ruth asks Boaz to spread the corner of his garment over her because he is a guardian-redeemer. What is she seeking?
A formal release from all connection to Naomi
Permission to manage the entire barley harvest
His protection and fulfillment of a family-redemption responsibility
Proof that she may return permanently to Moab
9. Who told Naomi, in essence, “Where you go I will go” and “Your people will be my people”?
Ruth
A woman of Bethlehem
Boaz’s mother
Orpah
10. If someone wanted to observe how Boaz made the redemption agreement public and legally recognized, where and how would it occur?
At the threshing floor, sealed by exchanging grain
In the tabernacle, confirmed by a priestly sacrifice
In Naomi’s home, recorded in a private letter
At the town gate before elders, confirmed through the sandal custom
11. What were the names of Naomi and Elimelech’s two sons?
Mahlon and Chilion (Kilion)
Jesse and David
Boaz and Obed
Perez and Hezron
12. Which conclusion best captures the significance of the genealogy at the end of Ruth?
It explains why Naomi became the ruler of Bethlehem
It shows that Boaz descended directly from King David
It places Ruth, a Moabite woman, within the family line leading to David
It separates Ruth’s life in Moab from Israel’s later history
13. Which action by Boaz most clearly provides Ruth with practical protection while she gleans?
He orders the workers not to mistreat her and allows her access to water and extra grain
He requires her to harvest in an isolated field
He appoints her to supervise the other workers
He sends her back to Moab with provisions
14. Why does Boaz say he cannot settle Ruth’s request immediately?
The barley harvest has not yet ended
Ruth must first become an Israelite landowner
Naomi has forbidden him to proceed
Another relative has a prior right to act as guardian-redeemer
15. How does Obed connect Ruth’s family story to King David?
Obed was David’s brother and military commander
Obed was David’s maternal uncle
Obed served as a judge immediately before David
Obed became the father of Jesse and grandfather of David
16. Who was Naomi’s husband when her family left Bethlehem for Moab during a famine?
Boaz
Obed
Elimelech
Jesse