Quiz on Queen Esther (10 Questions and Answers)

Category: Family · 10 questions

A quiz on Esther, Mordecai and Haman: the courageous queen who saved her people from destruction.

1. Who adopted Esther after she was orphaned?
   Answer: Mordecai, her cousin
   Mordecai had brought up Esther, his uncle's daughter, and took her as his own daughter when her parents died (Esther 2:7).
2. What was Esther's other name?
   Answer: Hadassah
   Mordecai had brought up Hadassah, that is Esther, the daughter of his uncle (Esther 2:7).
3. What does Mordecai reveal to the king through Esther?
   Answer: A plot by two eunuchs
   Mordecai learns that two eunuchs plan to lay hands on the king and tells Esther (Esther 2:21-22).
4. Why is Haman filled with fury against Mordecai?
   Answer: He will not bow down to him
   Mordecai neither bowed nor paid homage to Haman, who was filled with fury (Esther 3:2-5).
5. How does Haman choose the day for destroying the Jews?
   Answer: By casting the pur, that is, the lot
   They cast the pur, that is, the lot, before Haman for each day and each month (Esther 3:7).
6. What does Mordecai tell Esther to urge her to act?
   Answer: You are queen for such a time as this
   Mordecai asks: who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this? (Esther 4:14).
7. For how many days does Esther ask the people to fast?
   Answer: Three days
   Esther asks for a three-day fast, without eating or drinking, before she goes in to the king (Esther 4:16).
8. What does the king do when he sees Esther in the inner court?
   Answer: He holds out the golden scepter
   The king holds out to Esther the golden scepter, and she finds favor in his eyes (Esther 5:2).
9. Whom does Esther name as the enemy of her people?
   Answer: Haman
   Esther declares: a foe and enemy! This wicked Haman! (Esther 7:6).
10. Which feast recalls this deliverance of the Jews?
    Answer: Purim
    These days were called Purim, after the word pur, to keep alive the memory of the deliverance (Esther 9:26-28).