Online Quiz on Shavuot

Shavuot Quiz

Answer the questions below:

1. What's the meaning of the name Shavuot?
   select answer days weeks seventy they arrive
   
   
2. What type of food is it customary to eat during Shavuot?
   select answer dairy foods dried fruits pitah bread matzahs (matzos)
   
   
3. What do Shavuot, Passover and Sukkot have in common?
   select answer you can eat whatever you want, anywhere you want, at any time during these holidays all are celebrated for seven days pilgrimage to Jerusalem all of them take place in the same month
   
   
4. According to tradition, who was born and died on Shavuot?
   select answer Moses Jacob King Solomon Kind David
   
   
5. What book is read in Shavuot?
   select answer Song of Songs Psalms Ruth Proverbs
   
   
6. What do the Jews do the night before Shavuot?
   select answer celebrate study the Torah catch up with friends
   
   
7. What are the first fruits brought to the Temple called?
   select answer Bikkurim Tastes Sweets
   
   
8. Torah was given on which mountain?
   select answer Mt. Everest Mt. Sinai Mt. Moriah
   
   
9. What is the other name of Shavuot?
   select answer Chag Zeman Simchateinu Yom Habikurim
   
   
10. What is the sixth commandment?
    select answer Do not murder Do not have other Gods Do not steal
    
    
11. For how many days is the Omer counted?
    select answer 33 days Seven weeks One week 2 months
    
    
12. Who was Ruth?
    select answer An Indian Princess A loyal daughter A loyal daughter-in-law
    
    
13. A delicious treat associated with Shavuot is . . .
    select answer cheese blintzes chicken soup with matzah balls sweet and sour chicken
    
    
14. Shavuot is known by all of the following names except
    select answer Hag HaKatsir (harvest festival) Hag Habikkurim (festival of first fruits) Hag Haaviv (spring festival) Atzeret (cessation or solemn assembly)
    
    
15. In which mystical work is the period between Pesach and Shavuot viewed as the "courting days of the bridegroom Israel with the bride Torah"?
    select answer The Talmud The Mishnah The Zohar The Shulkhan Arukh