Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church Lay Academy

Are You Angry Over a Gourd?

Jonah

Peter Combes – September 8, 2002

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(The answers to the following may be multiple, or "none of the above")

 

1.        When ordered to Nineveh, Jonah took a ship bound for:
  1. Eliat
  2. Tarshish
  3. Tyre
  4. Cyprus
2.       To decide why there was a storm, the sailors:
  1. tasted the water
  2. measured the wind
  3. counted the birds
  4. cast lots
3.        Asked his country, Jonah said he was: 
  1. an Israelite
  2. a Judaean
  3. a Samaritan
  4. a Hebrew
4.         Jonah was in the fish: 
  1. five minutes
  2. five hours
  3. three days
  4. forty days
5.         It took how long to walk across Nineveh:
  1. two hours
  2. twenty-four hours
  3. three days
  4. forty days
6.        When the king of Nineveh heard the message of Jonah, he:
  1. had him arrested
  2. had him thrown out of the city
  3. had him executed
  4. repented in sackcloth and ashes
7.        Jonah asked God:
  1. to take him back to Jerusalem
  2. to take him back to Joppa
  3. to send him to Egypt
  4. to kill him
8.          Jonah was angry because God:
  1. destroyed a bush
  2. failed to destroy Nineveh
  3. had him swallowed by a fish
  4. sent him on to Babylon
9.         Nineveh had:
  1. over 120,000 inhabitants
  2. over 1,000 inhabitants
  3. under 1,000 inhabitants
  4. no animals
10.       Jesus uses the story of Jonah to talk about:
  1. baptism
  2. his own death and resurrection
  3. the failure of Jerusalem to repent
  4. repentance by foreigners