Q. How old was Adam when he died?

A. Nine hundred and thirty years. Chap. v, 5.
Q. What was the name of the oldest son of Seth?
A. Enos. Chap. v, 6. `.

Q. How old was Seth when he died?

A. Nine hundred and twelve years. Chap. v, 8.

Q. What are the names of the other patriarchs before the flood?

A. Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, and Noah. Chap. v, 9–32.

Q. What is the meaning of patriarch?

A. The head, or ruler of a family.

Q. Which of the patriarchs is noted for his piety?
A. Enoch, who walked with God. Chap. v, 24.

Q. What became of him?

A. He was taken to heaven without dying.

Q. Who was the oldest of the patriarchs?

A. Methuselah.

Q. How old was he when he died?

A. Nine hundred and sixty-nine years. Chap. v, 27.

Q. In whose days did the flood happen?

A. In the days of Noah.

Q. Why did God bring a flood upon the earth?

A. Because the wickedness of man was very great. Chap. vi, 5.

Q. Who found favor in the eyes of the Lord?
A. Noah.

Q. Why did

id God approve him?

4. Because he was a just man, and walked with God. Chap. vi, 9.

Q. What were the names of Noah's sons?!.

A. Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Chap. vi, 10.

Q. What did the Lord tell Noah to make?
A. A great ark. Chap. vi, 14.

Q. What is an ark?

A. A large covered ship.

Q. How long was he probably building it?
A. One hundred and twenty years.

Q. At the end of this time what did God command him to do?

A. To go into the ark. Chap. vii, 1.

Q. Whom should he take with him?

A. His wife, and his three sons, with their wives. Chap. vi, 18.

Q. What else should he take with them?

A. A pair of all the different kinds of beasts and fowls. Chap. vii, 2, 3.

Q. How long did the flood continue?
A. Forty days. Chap. vii, 17.

Q. What became of the ark?

A. It was borne up, and floated upon the waters. Chap. vii, 17.

Q. How high did the waters rise?

A. Above the tops of the highest mountains. Chap. vii, 19, 20.

Q. What became of the inhabitants of the earth? A. They all perished in the flood. Chap. vii, 21-23.

Q. How long did the waters cover the earth?

A. One hundred and fifty days. Chap. vii, 24.

Q. Where did the ark rest when the waters were abated? A. On Mount Ararat, in Armenia. Chap. viii, 4. Q. Where is Armenia?

A. In Asia.

Q. How did Noah find out when the waters were gone? A. He sent forth a raven and a dove. Chap viii, 7-12.

Q. What did the birds do?

A. The raven flew away, but the dove returned with an olive-leaf in her mouth, showing that the waters were dried off from the earth.

Q. How long was Noah in the ark?

A. About a year.

Q. What did Noah and his family do when they came out of the ark?

A. They erected an altar, and worshiped God. Chap. viii, 20.

Q. What did God promise them?

A. That the world should never again be destroyed with a flood. Chap. ix, 11.

Q. What token did the Lord give to confirm this promise? A. He caused the rainbow to appear in the clouds. Chap. ix, 13.

Q. How old was Noah when he died?

A. Nine hundred and fifty years. Chap. ix, 29.

Tower of Babel-Call of Abraham-estruction of

Sodom.

Question. Did the inhabitants of the earth at first speak in as many different tongues as now?

Answer. They did not; but the whole earth was of one language and one speech. Chap. xi, 1.

Q. What did the descendants of Noah undertake to build when they became numerous?

A city and a tower, whose top might reach to heaven. Chap. xi, 4.

bere did they propose to build them?

the plain of Shinar, in Assyria. Chap.

Q. What was the object of this tower?

A. To make themselves a name, and to prevent their being scattered abroad.

Q. How did the Lord overthrow their design?

A. He confounded their language, so that they could not understand one another's speech. Chap. xi, 7-9.

Q. What was the name of the place called?

Q. Of which of the sons of Noah was Abraham a descendant?

A. Of Shem. Chap. xi, 10-26.

Q. What was the name of Abraham's father?

A. Terah.

Q. What was the name of his wife?

4. Sarai. Chap. xi, 29.

Q. Where did they live when the Lord appeared to Abraham?

A. In Haran, or Mesopotamia. Chap. xi, 31.
Q. What did the Lord command him to do?

4. To leave his country, and kindred, and his father's house, and to go to such a place as he should direct. Chap. xii, 1.

Q. What promise

the Lord make him?

did th

A. I will make of thee a great nation; I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing. Chap. xii, 2.

Q. Did Abraham obey the Lord?

A. He did. He went forth, not knowing whither the Lord would lead him. Heb. xi, 8.

Q. Who went with him?

A. Lot, who was his nephew. Chap. xii, 5.