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OU.ORG Presents: The Holy Dozen
The "Holy Dozen" IQ Quiz

Hoshea
Course #2

Instructions:

 Select the item from Column 2 that best fits the word(s) in Column 1. Indicate your answer by using the drop-down box in the middle.

Good Luck!

 

Column 1 Answer Column 2
1. The meaning of "Sechar Ve-Onesh" is … a. Fear and Trembling
b. Reward and Punishment
c. Judgment and Mercy
2. "Ruchama" means … a. pitied
b. pitted
c. potted
d. Potter'd (as in "Harry")
3. The Second Chapter of Hoshea, like Jewish History, …

a. has a happy ending
b. has no ending
c. has a sad ending
4. According to this Chapter, at the time of the "Mashiach," …and … will return.

a. Yeravam, Yehu
b. Yehudah, Binyamin
c. Yehudah, Yisrael
5. The model of loyalty in this chapter is the …

a. righteous judge
b. steadfast prophet
c. loyal wife and young bride

6. At the time of the "Mashiach," the Jewish People will again be called "My People" and …

a. "Brothers who have
regained G-d's mercy"
b. "Sisters who have
regained G-d's mercy"
c. "Uncles who have regained G-d's mercy"
7. Mother Israel … her "original husband."

a. abandoned
b. was always faithful to
c. never left
 8. According to the Talmud, Hoshea's sin was that he …

a. suggested exchanging Israel for
another people.
b. suggested to
HaShem that He find another prophet.
c. suggested to HaShem that he exchange the Land of Israel for Uganda.
9. What difficulty did Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi (the Prince) try to explain?

a. the transition from winter to spring in just
one day
b. the transition from "punishment" to "blessing"
c. the transition from "blue and white" to "black and blue"
10. In the parable of Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi, the King suggests to the scribe …

a. doubling the size of the Beit HaMikdash.
b. doubling the size of
"Eretz Yisrael."
c. doubling the size of the "Ketuvah."
11. The name of the "Sister" is …

a. Sarah
b. Miriam
c. Ruchama

12. The "thirst" referred to by Hoshea may mean the …

a. "thirst" for riches
b. "thirst" for real estate
c. "thirst" for Torah

13. According to Metzudat David, quoting the Talmud, when the sin is great enough, …

 

a. even the wicked are drawn into the general punishment.
b. even the
not-so-righteous, not-so-wicked are drawn into the general punishment.
c. even the righteous are drawn into the general punishment.

14. The "false lovers" were …

 

a. Romeo and Juliet
b. Antony and Cleopatra
c. Ashur and Mitzrayim

15. The expression "for it was better for me then" refers to …

a. returning to one's
youth
b. returning to one's
birthplace
c. returning to one's "first husband."

16. In the expression "got fat and self-satisfied and kicked at …," what was kicked at?

a. a football
b. a stubborn mule
c. the Torah

17. The expression "tama zechut avot" means that "the merit of the forefathers …"

a. has been re-doubled.
b. has run out.
c. is inexhaustible.

18. The expression "Valley of Achor to a Gateway of Hope" alludes to …

a. a crime of Achan.
b. the Jordan Valley.
c. Ellis Island.

19. The two meanings of the word "Baal" are … and …

 

a. a husband, an idol
b. an idle husband, a
fond memory
c. a fond memory of an idle husband, a fruit

20. The expression "a covenant with the beasts of the field" refers to …

 a. a "change in nature" or the "end of war
b. a "change in war" or
the "end of nature"
c. a scene in Kipling's "Jungle Boy"
21. The expression, "And I will betroth you unto Me in righteousness and in justice" refers to …

a. the reunion of HaShem and the Jewish People
b. the reunion of Yaakov and Rachel
c. the reunion of Avraham and Sarah

22. The sewing of the four attributes into a crown for Israel may refer to …

 

a. the restoration of the crown of David
b. the restoration of the
crown of Shaulc. the restoration of the "crown" that the People of Israel were given at Sinai and had to remove after they worshipped the Golden Calf

23. RADAK explains the three-fold repetition of "And I will betroth you unto Me" as referring to …

 

a. Redemption from the Exiles of Egypt, Babylonia and the Current Exile
b. a sociological study of divorce and re-marriage
c. the three "Avot" of the Jewish People

24. Extra Credit - The three-fold repetition found in this chapter is said when …

 

a. one steps backward three times at the end of the "Shemoneh Esray"
b. one raises oneself three times when reciting "Kadosh! Kadosh! Kadosh!", "Holy! Holy! Holy!" during the recital of the "Kedushah"
c. wrapping the strap of the "Tefilin shel Yad," around one's fingers

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