TEST YOUR BIBLICAL IQ (Answer Key to "The Flood")

V. THE FLOOD (Gen. 6-9)

1. What two races of man seem now to be living in the world?

    Ans. A godly race, worshiping the true God, and called “sons [and daughters] of God”; and a worldly and perhaps idolatrous race, called [sons and] “daughters of men.” Gen. 6:1-6.

2. Did these continue to exist separately? No.

    Ans. “The sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they choose.”

3. What was the character of their descendants?

    Ans. They were “mighty men”; “men of renown”; and very wicked.

4. What did God resolve to do?

     Ans. To destroy both man and beast. (Gen. 6:7).

5. Did He find one faithful family?

    Ans. Yes, Noah’s. (Gen. 6:8-22).

6. What command did God give Noah?

    Ans. He commanded him to build an ark in which he and others with him might be saved from the “flood of waters” which God was to bring upon the earth.

7. What is Noah said in 2 Pet. 2:5 to have been?

    Ans. A preacher of righteousness.

8. To whom did he preach?

   Ans. To all he met, telling them of the flood which was coming to destroy them. But they would not believe.

9. What was the consequence?

   Ans. “The flood came and took them all away.” Matt. 24:39; Gen. 7:21-23.

10. How were Noah and his family preserved?

      Ans. In the ark which Noah built at God’s command.

11. Of whom  was the ark a type?

      Ans. Of Christ, as the appointed means of saving men from destruction.

12. Of what was the flood a type?

      Ans. “Of the future destruction of the world.

       “The world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished; but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.” 2 Pet. 3:6, 7.

13. What living beings were saved in the ark?

       Ans. Noah, his three sons, the wives of all four; seven pairs of every clean beast and bird (such as could be used for food or for sacrifice); and one pair of every other sort. Gen. 6:18-20; 7:2, 3, 13-16.

14. Could other men and women have been saved?

       Ans. If they had believed Noah and had been willing to take refuge in the ark they would have been saved.

15. How long did it continue raining?

    Ans. Forty days and nights. Gen. 7:12-24.

16. How long did the waters prevail upon the earth?

      Ans. One hundred and fifty days.

17. How did Noah know when the waters had abated?

      Ans. He send out a dove. Gen. 8:8-12.

18. What was Noah’s first act when he came forth from the ark?

      Ans. He built an altar and offered a sacrifice. Gen. 8:20- 9:17.

19. What promise did God give Noah at this time?

      Ans. That he would not again curse the ground for man’s sake, etc.

20. What did God give him as a token?

      Ans. The rainbow.

21. Did God make any changes in man’s food at that time?

       Ans. He gave him animal food in addition to his former vegetable food

22. Under what restriction?

      That “the life thereof, which is the blood” should not be eaten.

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Test Your Biblical IQ (THE FLOOD)

V. THE FLOOD (Gen. 6-9)

1. What two races of man seem now to be living in the world?

  

2. Did these continue to exist separately? No.

   

3. What was the character of their descendants?

4. What did God resolve to do?

5. Did He find one faithful family?

  

6. What command did God give Noah?

 

7. What is Noah said in 2 Pet. 2:5 to have been?

   

8. To whom did he preach?

  

9. What was the consequence?

10. How were Noah and his family preserved?

   

11. Of whom  was the ark a type?

12. Of what was the flood a type?

     

13. What living beings were saved in the ark?

14. Could other men and women have been saved?

      

15. How long did it continue raining?

  

16. How long did the waters prevail upon the earth?

     

17. How did Noah know when the waters had abated?

     

18. What was Noah’s first act when he came forth from the ark?

     

19. What promise did God give Noah at this time?

20. What did God give him as a token?

   

21. Did God make any changes in man’s food at that time?

22. Under what restriction?

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TEST YOUR BIBLICAL IQ (Answer Key to "The World Before the Flood")

IV. THE WORLD BEFORE THE FLOOD (Genesis 5)

1. What son did God give Adam and Eve after they had lost both Cain and Abel?

    Ans. Seth first; and after that others whose number or names are not given.

2. How long was the life of man as here indicated?

    Ans. Nine hundred years or more.

3. What three names in this chapter are specially to be remembered?

     Ans. Methuselah, the oldest man; Enoch who “walked with God”; and Noah in whose days the flood came. (vv. 24, 27, 28, 29)

4. Who had the shortest life and why?

    Ans.  Enoch only lived three hundred and sixty-five years; “and he was not, for God took him.”

5. What remarkable prophecy of Enoch does the apostle Jude repeat?

     Ans. “Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of His saints.” Jude 14

6. To what does this refer? (follow up question to no.5)

    Ans. To our Lord’s second coming.

  

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Test Your BIblical IQ (THE WORLD BEFORE THE FLOOD)

IV. THE WORLD BEFORE THE FLOOD (Genesis 5)

1. What son did God give Adam and Eve after they had lost both Cain and Abel?

 

2. How long was the life of man as here indicated?

   

3. What three names in this chapter are specially to be remembered?

   

4. Who had the shortest life and why?

  

5. What remarkable prophecy of Enoch does the apostle Jude repeat?

    

 6. To what does this refer? (follow up question to no.5)

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TEST YOUR BIBLICAL IQ (Answer key to "Cain and Abel)

III. CAIN AND ABEL (Gen. 4)

1. What are the names of the first two sons of Adam and Eve?

     Ans. Cain, meaning "possession," and Abel, meaning "vanity."

2. What were their special occupations?

    Ans. Cain was "a tiler of the ground"; and Abel "a keeper of sheep."

3. What difference was there in the offerings of the two brothers?
    Ans. Cain offered of the fruit of the ground, and Abel the firstlings of his flock. 

4. Were both equally acceptable to God?

    Ans. No. 

5. Was this because of the different kind of offerings?

    Ans. Probably not; at least we have no hint of any previous command regarding sacrifices. Offerings of the first fruits of the harvest were commanded later; and each would naturally offer the fruits of his own labor.

"By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and by it he being dead yet speaketh." Heb. 11:4.

6. Do we know what proof God gave that the sacrifice was accepted?

    Ans. No, it is impossible. but it was something of which the offerer could be sure, for Cain was very angry. 

7. How did God reprove Cain?

    Ans. He told him it was sin which prevented the acceptance of his offering. 

8. To what awful act did Cain's anger lead?

    To the murder of his brother Abel. 

9. What fearful lie did he tell?

    Ans. He told the all-seeing God that he knew not where his brother was.

10. What words did he use that we should say?

      Ans. "Am I my brother's keeper?"

11. How should we answer the question, "Where is your brother"?

      Ans. That we are so far our brother's keeper that we must be careful to do nothing which will hurt him bodily, mentally or spiritually; but on the contrary to do all possible to help him.

12. What was Cain's punishment?

       Ans. To be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth.

13. How did Cain feel when he heard God's curse?

      Ans. That his punishment was greater than he could bear.

14. What did God do to mitigate his punishment?

      Ans. He set a mark upon him to prevent his being killed. 

15. What do we read of Cain's descendants? 

      Ans. They were men of strength and skill, showing great inventive genius in making tents, weapons, tools, and musical instruments. And they were the first who kept herds of cattle as private property. 

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A Spire Book

Published by Pyramid Publications for the Fleming H. Revell Company