6th - Religion Chapter 8

Question 0

What does the life of Joseph remind us?

Answer 0

That even when we encounter obstacles in life, God provides for our needs and watches over us.

Question 1

Who was Joseph?

Answer 1

One of Israel’s youngest son

Question 2

What means that God can bring good results from the bad choices that people make?

Answer 2

Divine Providence

Question 3

Who was Israel’s favorite son?

Answer 3

Joseph

Question 4

What did Israel have made for Joseph that made his brothers’ envious?

Answer 4

A fine tunic

Question 5

To make matters worse with Joseph’s brothers, Joseph told his brothers about his dream. Describe the dream.

Answer 5

“We were binding sheaves when suddenly my sheaf stood up in the center. Your sheaves formed a ring around mine and bowed to it.”

Question 6

How did Joseph’s brothers feel about his dream?

Answer 6

They hated Joseph all the more - “Are you going to make yourself King over us?”

Question 7

What was Joseph’s second dream?

Answer 7

He saw the sun, the moon, and 11 stars bowing to him.

Question 8

How did his father react to this second dream?

Answer 8

His father scolded him - is everyone to bow to you?

Question 9

What did Joseph’s brothers plot?

Answer 9

To kill Joseph

Question 10

Who objected to killing Joseph?

Answer 10

Reuben, the eldest brother

Question 11

At Reuben’s suggest what did the brothers do to Joseph?

Answer 11

They took his splendid tunic and threw him into a dry well.

Question 12

That evening while Joseph was in the dry well, what did the brothers decide?

Answer 12

They decided to sell him to these traders from Ishmaelites for 20 pieces of silver.

Question 13

What happen to Joseph in the hands of the Ishmaelites’ hands?

Answer 13

He was taken from Canaan to Egypt where he was sold as a slave to Potiphar, an official of the pharaoh

Question 14

What did his brothers do to explain Joseph being gone?

Answer 14

They killed a goat and dipped Joseph’s tunic in its blood. They sent the tunic to Israel with the message - “We have found this. See whether it is your son’s tunic.” When Israel identified the tunic, he mourned Joseph deeply and refused to be consoled.

Question 15

What were Joseph’s brothers guilty of?

Answer 15

Envy, one of the seven capital sins

Question 16

What is the feeling of anger, sadness, or resentment because someone has a quality, a talent, or a possession that we want?

Answer 16

Envy

Question 17

Envy is a sin against which commandment?

Answer 17

The 10th

Question 18

How did the lord do for Joseph while he lived in Potiphar’s house?

Answer 18

The Lord protected him. Joseph was successful in everything he did.

Question 19

Why was Joseph throw in jail?

Answer 19

After awhile, Potiphar’s wife fell in love with Joseph. But Joseph refused to commit sin with her, for he had great respect for Potiphar and for God’s laws. Angry, she screamed and pretended that Joseph had tried to attack her. So Potiphar became furious and threw him in jail.

Question 20

Why did the pharaoh summon Joseph?

Answer 20

Because he had heard that Joseph could interpret dreams. And he had dream that no one could interpret.

Question 21

What did Joseph said in response to the pharaoh’s request?

Answer 21

That it is God who will give an answer.

Question 22

Describe the pharaoh’s two dreams.

Answer 22

1. 7 cows, fat and sleek came out of the Nile. Behind came 7 other cows, ugly and scrawny. They ate the fat cows.
2. He saw 7 ears of grain, fat and healthy, growing on one stalk. Behind them were 7 ears of grain, shrivel, then and blasted by the east wind. These ears swallowed up the healthy ears of grain.

Question 23

What did Joseph said about the pharaoh’s dreams?

Answer 23

That God had revealed to the pharaoh what he was going to do. In Egypt, there would be 7 years of good crops followed by 7 years of famine.

Question 24

What did Joseph advise the pharaoh to do?

Answer 24

To collect and store food during the good years so that people would have food to eat during the famine.

Question 25

What was the pharaoh’s response to this advise?

Answer 25

The pharaoh made Joseph governor over all Egypt. So for the next 7 years, he collected and stored the abundant crops then when the famine came he opened the storehouses to the people

Question 26

What was the good example that Joseph showed us?

Answer 26

How the goods of the earth are meant to be shared by all. God wants his creation to be enjoyed by all.

Question 27

What is one of our responsibilities?

Answer 27

To care for one another

Question 28

What is the attitude that leads us to share spiritual and material goods with others?

Answer 28

Solidarity