Monthly Bible Quiz Competitions
Quiz Number - 3
 Bible Section : Matthew’s Gospel Chapter 5-6
 Closing Date : 2014-03-31

 (Some questions have more than one correct answer, all correct answers must be selected)


1. What are the rewards respectively for those who are poor in spirit, who mourn, who are meek and who thirst for righteousness?

Pleasure of seeing God, Kingdom of heaven, Comfort, Inheritance of earth
Kingdom of heaven, Comfort, Inheritance of earth, Fulfillment
Kingdom of earth, Comfort, Inheritance of earth, Fulfillment
Kingdom of heaven, Forgiveness of sins, Inheritance of earth, Peace
 Kingdom of heaven, Comfort, Doubled goodness, Fulfillment

2. What are the rewards respectively for those who are merciful, who are pure in heart, who are making peace and who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake?

 Kingdom of heaven, Comfort, Inheritance of earth, Fulfillment
Mercy, Seeing God, Comfort, Kingdom of heaven.
 Mercy, seeing god, Called as Children of God, Kingdom of heaven
 Inheritance of earth, Seeing God, Called as Children of God, Kingdom of heaven.
 Inheritance of earth, Peace, Forgiveness of sins, Kingdom of heaven

3. When should we be glad and joyous according to the Sermon by the Jesus on the Mount?

 When others appreciate you for your good deeds
 When you love your enemies
 When you are fasting
When people revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely for Jesus` sake.
 When you are baptized

4. Fill in the blanks
No one can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve …........................ .

 Home and State
God and Wealth
 Man and God
 Church and Jesus
 Earth and Heaven

5. Who will be called least in the Kingdom of heaven?

Those who live like Pharisees
Those who kill someone.
Whoever breaks the first commandment
Whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same
Whoever divorces his wife

6. How Jesus furnishes and expands the old testament commandment i.e. ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders shall be liable to judgment’?

If you are angry with a brother or sister, you will be liable to judgment
 If you insult a brother or sister, you will be liable to the council.
 Whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same, will be called least in the kingdom of heaven.
 Everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
 If you say, ‘You fool’, you will be liable to the hell of fire.

7. What Jesus tells to do when you are offering your gift at the altar, if you remember that your brother or sister has something against you?

 Leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother or sister.
 After the Reconciliation with your brethren come and offer your gift.
 Give those who ask
 Tell the priest about your brethren
 Confess you sins immediately.


8. Why Jesus says that you should not swear either by heaven or by the earth?

 Heaven is the throne of God
 Heaven is footstool of God
 Earth is footstool of God
 Earth is the throne of God
 Heaven is the living place of saints.

9. What is the consequence unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees?

Your sins will not be forgiven
Your cannot join the Church
You will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
You will receive sickness and ill health.
 You remain cursed on the earth

10. How should we give alms?

 Do not sound a trumpet before others.
 Give your alms through the Church
 Do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing.
 Do before others
 Give whoever asks you

11. What is the real quality or attitude to be followed when we pray?

 Do not be like the hypocrites
 Stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners.
 Go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret.
 Go to church and pray before tabernacle
 Do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do.

12. What is the salient feature of the prayer by Jesus ‘Our Father’?

Praising the Lord
Forgiving and asking forgiveness
 Praying God to rescue us from trials and temptations
Forgiving others’ sins
Praising Mother Mary

13. What are the regulations to be followed when you fast?

 Putting oil on the head and washing the face.
 Looking dismal
 Disfigure your face
 Tell the parishioners about your fast
 Letting yourself not into temptations

14. What is the reason behind the sayings of Jesus concerning treasures i.e. ‘Do not store up treasures on earth but store up in heaven’?

 Moth and rust will consume on earth
 Neither moth nor rust consumes in heaven
 It is a sin, storing up lot of treasures on Earth
 In heaven, thieves do not break in and steal
 We are anyway going to die on earth one day.

15. What is the reason behind the utterance of Jesus i.e. ‘Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink or what you will wear’?

Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.
God who instituted the Church, will really protect us
Birds of the air neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.
God who clothes the grass of the field, will surely cloth you also.
No one can add a single hour to your span of life by worrying.