Ecclesiastes Quiz 1

Have your KJV Bible handy for the questions that follow. The questions for this quiz are found in Ecclesiastes 1 – 2.

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1

The Preacher was the son of King Solomon.

2

The Preacher said that all is vanity.

3

One generation passes away and the earth passes away with it.

4

The eye is not satisfied with the things it sees, but instead it desires more.

5

The sea is never full, even though all of the rivers run into it.

6

According to the author of Ecclesiastes, there are many new things under the sun, (on earth).

7

The Preacher was a king over Israel in Jerusalem.

8

Those things which are wanting (lacking) are so few that they can be numbered.

9

The more wisdom one has, the more grief he will also have.

10

The author of Ecclesiastes, the Preacher, increased more than all that were before him in Jerusalem.

11

The author had great possessions of cattle above all who lived before him in Jerusalem.

12

When he looked at the work his hands had wrought (done), he had gained great profit under the sun.

13

The fool always walks in great light.

14

The wise Preacher said in his heart that the things which happened to the fool also happened to him.

15

He hated all of his labor which he had done because he would have to leave it to the man after him.

16

After their death, there is much more remembered about the wise person than the fool.

17

The Preacher did not get everything his eyes desired, and he withheld his heart from joy.

18

He saw that wisdom excels, (is greater than) folly.

19

He saw that it was not good to eat and drink, and that his soul should not enjoy the good of his labor.

20

God gives to a man those things which are good in God’s sight, such as wisdom, knowledge and joy.

21

God allows the sinner to gather and heap up so that he might give to him that is good before God.

22

Even though the Preacher had everything that his heart desired, he still found no profit under the sun.

23

It was determined that those things which are crooked can easily be made straight.

24

The author of this book said that laughter is exciting.

25

The Preacher hated life because the work was grievous to him.

26

The author of Ecclesiastes is known as the Preacher, and he was:

27

As one generation of people passes away, another generation comes, but the earth:

28

The wind blows toward the south, then turns north and whirls about continually, finally returning again:

29

The Preacher asks if there is anything new, and then says that it has already been of old time which:

30

The Preacher gave his heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all things that:

31

This sore travail (very difficult work) has God given to the sons of man to be:

32

The author gave his heart to know wisdom, madness, and folly but discovered that this also is:

33

The Preacher discovered that he who has much wisdom also has much:

34

When one increases his knowledge, he also increases:

35

When he sought mirth and pleasure for enjoyment, he found it to be:

36

The Preacher said that laughter is:

37

He built himself houses, planted vineyards, made gardens and orchards, and planted trees in them of:

38

As he looked upon all of the works his hands had done and upon his labor, he realized that all was:

39

He realized that wisdom excels:

40

The wise man can see where he is going, but the fool walks in:

41

The Preacher said in his heart that as it happened to the fool so it happened to him even though he was:

42

There is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool forever, because as the wise die, so does:

43

The author hated life because the work which he did under the sun was:

44

He was concerned about whether the person who would rule over his possessions after his death was:

45

He hated all of his labor which he had taken under the sun because he would only die and leave it to:

46

All the days of a working man are sorrow and with his work comes grief, so that his heart:

47

For God gives to a man who is good in His sight wisdom, knowledge, and:

48

When a man can eat and drink and make his soul enjoy good in his labor, it is from the:

49

God gives travail to the sinner so that he can gather and heap up possessions to give to the one who is:

50

There is a man whose labor is in wisdom, and in knowledge and in: