Marriage Test

Question 1

What are the two procreative functions of marriage?

Answer 1

• Physiologically men and women complement each other

* Biologically it is how procreation occurs

Question 2

What are the two unitive functions of marriage?

Answer 2

• One Flesh Union of husband and wife created a bond

* Oxytocin hormone plays a big role in that bond

Question 3

What are analogies of marriage?

Answer 3

Fire and water

Question 4

What structure plays a strong role in bible marriage stories?

Answer 4

The well

Question 5

What was the first bible love story?

Answer 5

Adam and Eve

Question 6

What is the Bible’s first marriage?

Answer 6

Adam and Eve

Question 7

In the story of Abram and Sarai, how does Abram produce children?

Answer 7

Abram has children through Sarai’s maid, which she offered to Abram for this purpose

Question 8

In the story of Isaac and Rebekah, how do they get married/meet?

Answer 8

Abram his Isaac’s father sends a servant to the well to find a wife for his son Isaac, and the servant meets Rebekah.

Question 9

What does Leah mean?

Answer 9

Cow

Question 10

What does Rachel mean?

Answer 10

Ewe lamb

Question 11

Why is Jacob running from his family?

Answer 11

He stole his father’s inheritance blessing from his brother Esau.

Question 12

How does Jacob meet Rachel in the story of “Jacob, Rachel, Leah, and the maids?”

Answer 12

Jacob runs to his mother’s ancestral home and runs into Rachel at the well.

Question 13

How long does Jacob have to work to supposedly marry Rachel?

Answer 13

Jacob is tole that he has to work 7 years, but ends up working 14 because of Rachel’s Father’s deception.

Question 14

Who does Jacob marry first after the first 7 years of marriage?

Answer 14

Leah; he was deceived by Rachel’s father and tricked into marrying Leah.

Question 15

What is Rachel’s father’s reasoning for his deception?

Answer 15

The oldest daughter should be married first.

Question 16

Who did David commit adultery with?

Answer 16

Bathsheba, who he impregnated.

Question 17

How does David attempt to show his faithfulness to Bathsheba, in the story of “David and Bathsheba?”

Answer 17

David, in the ultimate act of faith, arranges for her husband’s death, Uriah.

Question 18

Who is David’s second son?

Answer 18

Solomon

Question 19

What were the consequences of David’s faithlessness?

Answer 19

1) Disharmony in the family
2) Children will suffer
3) Conflict in society
4) Worship of God will suffer

Question 20

What is the covenant made with Moses, what is its sign?

Answer 20

Circumcision

Question 21

What did the prophet Hosea say?

Answer 21

Go and marry a harlot.

Question 22

During which reign did Hosea’s ministry begin?

Answer 22

Jeroboam II, king of Israel

Question 23

Who is given the command to marry a harlot by Hosea?

Answer 23

Gomer

Question 24

What is troubling the people of Israel during Hosea’s time?

Answer 24

The people of Israel are in a covenant relationship with the Lord, but they have all forgotten their commitment to him.

Question 25

How had the people of Israel been unfaithful to God, during Hosea’s time?

Answer 25

The people of Israel had been adulterous.

Question 26

What was so bad about the Canaanite Fertility Cults?

Answer 26

It encouraged adulterous behavior.

Question 27

Who was the Canaanite fertility God?

Answer 27

Baal.

Question 28

What would the Canaanites sacrifice at times?

Answer 28

Their children, usually their firstborn

Question 29

What was “sympathetic magic” and what group of people practice it?

Answer 29

Pagans practiced this, and it was the practice of performing the behaviors they wish their Gods to demonstrate.

Question 30

What did “sympathetic magic” lead to?

Answer 30

Religious Prostitution