Test Your Biblical Knowledge: Creation

Following are thirty-one questions–one for each day this month. The subject is God’s amazing work in Creation.

 

1 What is the very first action God performs in Genesis 1? (Answer)

A. Creates light
B. Separates land and sea
C. Creates the heavens and the earth
D. Forms man

2 What condition describes the earth before God’s ordering work begins? (Answer)

A. Empty and silent
B. Formless and void
C. Covered in vegetation
D. Filled with creatures

3 What does God create on Day 1? (Answer)

A. Light
B. Land
C. Plants
D. Birds

4 What key distinction does God make on Day 1? (Answer)

A. Land from sea
B. Light from darkness
C. Birds from fish
D. Heaven from earth

5 What does God create on Day 2? (Answer)

A. The sun
B. The expanse (firmament)
C. Plants
D. Animals

6 What structural separation occurs on Day 2? (Answer)

A. Waters above from waters below
B. Land from sea
C. Night from day
D. Animals from humans

7 What does God gather on Day 3? (Answer)

A. Stars
B. Waters
C. Clouds
D. Angels

8 What emerges when the waters are gathered on Day 3? (Answer)

A. Mountains
B. Dry land
C. Birds
D. Light

9 What additional creation occurs on Day 3? (Answer)

A. Fish
B. Plants and vegetation
C. Sun and moon
D. Animals

10 What does God create on Day 4? (Answer)

A. Plants
B. Sun, moon, and stars
C. Birds
D. Land animals

11 What purpose do the lights in the heavens serve? (Answer)

A. Decoration
B. Signs, seasons, days, and years
C. Navigation only
D. To warm the earth

12 What does God create on Day 5? (Answer)

A. Land animals
B. Birds and sea creatures
C. Humans
D. Plants

13 What blessing does God give on Day 5? (Answer)

A. “Be fruitful and multiply”
B. “Have dominion”
C. “Rest”
D. “Let there be light”

14 What does God create on Day 6 before humans? (Answer)

A. Birds
B. Fish
C. Land animals
D. Angels

15 In whose image are humans created? (Answer)

A. Angels
B. The earth
C. God
D. The heavens

16 What mandate does God give humans on Day 6? (Answer)

A. Build cities
B. Have dominion and multiply
C. Offer sacrifices
D. Rest

17 What does God provide as food for humans in Genesis 1? (Answer)

A. Meat
B. Fish
C. Every seed‑bearing plant
D. Milk

18 What does God declare about all He has made at the end of Day 6? (Answer)

A. It is unfinished
B. It is good
C. It is very good
D. It is temporary

19 What does God do on the seventh day? (Answer)

A. Creates angels
B. Rests
C. Forms Adam
D. Judges creation

20 What does God bless on the seventh day? (Answer)

A. The animals
B. The land
C. The seventh day
D. The stars

21 What material does God use to form Adam in Genesis 2? (Answer)

A. Water
B. Dust of the ground
C. Stone
D. Light

22 What does God breathe into Adam? (Answer)

A. Wisdom
B. Life
C. The breath of life
D. Strength

23 Where does God place Adam after forming him? (Answer)

A. The wilderness
B. The mountains
C. The Garden of Eden
D. The sea

24 What command does God give Adam regarding the trees? (Answer)

A. Eat from all trees freely
B. Do not eat from the tree of life
C. Do not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
D. Do not touch any fruit

25 How is Eve created? (Answer)

A. From dust
B. From Adam’s rib
C. From the earth
D. From the breath of God

26 What task does God give Adam in the Garden of Eden? (Answer)

A. To name the animals
B. To till and keep the garden
C. To build an altar
D. To gather fruit

27 What reason does God give for creating a helper for Adam? (Answer)

A. Adam was lonely
B. Adam needed assistance with work
C. It was not good for man to be alone
D. Adam asked for a companion

28 How does God bring the animals to Adam? (Answer)

A. Adam searches for them
B. God forms them from the ground and brings them to Adam
C. They appear in visions
D. They come to Adam on their own

29 What does Adam say when he first sees Eve? (Answer)

A. “She shall be called Woman”
B. “This is my companion”
C. “She is beautiful”
D. “She is a gift from God”

30 What foundational principle of marriage is stated in Genesis 2? (Answer)

A. Marriage is for companionship
B. A man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife
C. Marriage is for raising children
D. Marriage is a sacred covenant

31 How does Genesis describe the state of Adam and Eve before the Fall? (Answer)

A. Innocent and untested
B. Wise and knowledgeable
C. Naked and not ashamed
D. Clothed in light

 

 

 

 

 

ANSWERS 1–5

1 C — Genesis 1:1
2 B — Genesis 1:2
3 A — Genesis 1:3
4 B — Genesis 1:4
5 B — Genesis 1:6

ANSWERS 6-10
6 A — Genesis 1:7
7 B — Genesis 1:9
8 B — Genesis 1:9
9 B — Genesis 1:11
10 B — Genesis 1:14–16

ANSWERS 11-15
11 B — Genesis 1:14
12 B — Genesis 1:20–21
13 A — Genesis 1:22
14 C — Genesis 1:24
15 C — Genesis 1:26–27

ANSWERS 16-20
16 B — Genesis 1:28
17 C — Genesis 1:29
18 C — Genesis 1:31
19 B — Genesis 2:2
20 C — Genesis 2:3

ANSWERS 21-25

21 B — Genesis 2:7
22 C — Genesis 2:7
23 C — Genesis 2:8
24 C — Genesis 2:17
25 B — Genesis 2:21–22

ANSWERS 26-31
26 B — Genesis 2:15
27 C — Genesis 2:18
28 B — Genesis 2:19
29 A — Genesis 2:23
30 B — Genesis 2:24
31 C — Genesis 2:25