Tree of the knowledge of good and evil

Tree of the knowledge of good and evil - Quiz

1. In Christian tradition, what event did consuming the fruit of the tree lead to?

A) The creation of angels
B) The flood of Noah
C) The Tower of Babel
D) The fall of man

2. Which religious figure taught that the tree should be understood both symbolically and as a real tree?

A) Adam
B) Augustine of Hippo
C) Iblis
D) George Smith

3. According to Augustine, why were the fruits of the tree not evil by themselves?

A) They were actually apples
B) They were blessed by angels
C) Everything that God created was good
D) They were made of gold

4. What specifically caused disorder in the creation according to Christian tradition?

A) The disobedience of Adam and Eve
B) The deception by the serpent
C) The eating of wheat
D) The creation of the tree

5. What did humanity inherit from Adam and Eve's sin in Christian tradition?

A) Sin and guilt
B) Angelic status
C) Knowledge and gnosis
D) Immortality and wisdom

6. In Western Christian art, what is the fruit of the tree commonly depicted as?

A) Barley
B) Wheat
C) An apple
D) A fig

7. Where did the apple originate, according to the text?

A) Central Asia
B) Jerusalem
C) Mesopotamia
D) Babylonia

8. What Latin pun may have led to the depiction of the forbidden fruit as an apple?

A) vitus and vita
B) mālum and malum
C) malus and bonus
D) poma and poena

9. What does the Latin word 'mālum' mean in the context of the fruit pun?

A) Tree
B) Apple
C) Garden
D) Evil

10. What does the Latin word 'malum' mean in the context of the fruit pun?

A) Disobedience
B) Evil
C) Snake
D) Apple

11. According to the Bible, is there anything to show the forbidden fruit was necessarily an apple?

A) No
B) Yes
C) Only in Revelation
D) Only in Genesis

12. How did the Gnostic religion uniquely view the tree?

A) As a symbol of absolute evil
B) As an ordinary bush
C) Entirely positive or even sacred
D) As a poisonous plant

13. According to Gnostic saga, who told Adam and Eve not to eat the fruit?

A) The aeons
B) God
C) The archons
D) An instructor

14. What lie did the archons tell Adam and Eve regarding the fruit?

A) They would become angels
B) It was actually an apple
C) They would die after tasting it
D) It would give them eternal sleep

15. Who was sent from the Pleroma by the aeons to save humanity in Gnosticism?

A) Iblis
B) An instructor
C) An archon
D) A serpent

16. According to the Gnostic savior, what was eating the fruit the way into?

A) Immortality alone
B) Salvation
C) The fall of man
D) Destruction

17. Which Gnostic manuscripts contain narratives about the tree being positive?

A) The Book of Revelation
B) On the Origin of the World and the Secret Book of John
C) Genesis and Exodus
D) Quran Al-A'raf

18. Which religious group is considered a Gnostic sect that echoes these notions about the tree?

A) Sunni Islam
B) Shia Islam
C) Manichaeism
D) Western Christianity

19. In Manichaeism, who is presented as the primordial aspect of the instructor?

A) Jesus
B) George Smith
C) Adam
D) Augustine

20. In the Quran, what is the tree typically referred to as?

A) The apple tree
B) The tree
C) The sacred bush
D) The tree of knowledge of good and evil

21. In the words of Iblis in the Quran, what is the tree called?

A) The tree of knowledge
B) The tree of immortality
C) The forbidden apple
D) The tree of salvation

22. According to Muslims, what did Satan tell them was the only reason God forbade them to eat from the tree?

A) They would lose their clothes
B) They would die immediately
C) They would become angels or immortal
D) The fruit was poisonous

23. What happened immediately when Adam and Eve ate from the tree in the Islamic narrative?

A) They turned into angels
B) Their nakedness appeared to them
C) They inherited original sin
D) They gained gnosis

24. What did Adam and Eve do to cover themselves after eating from the tree in the Quran?

A) Asked God for clothes
B) Sewed together leaves from the Garden
C) Used animal skins
D) Made garments of wool

25. How does the Quran mention the sin of eating from the tree?

A) As a total fall
B) As original sin
C) As an unforgivable crime
D) As a 'slip'

26. What happened after Adam and Eve repented and asked for forgiveness in the Quran?

A) They were cast out forever without hope
B) They were turned into stones
C) They were forgiven
D) They were forced to eat wheat

27. In the Shia tradition, what is the forbidden fruit considered to be?

A) A fig
B) Wheat or barley
C) An apple
D) Unspecified

28. In Quran Al-A'raf 27, what did Satan bring Adam and Eve out of?

A) The Garden
B) The Pleroma
C) Mesopotamia
D) Heavenly Jerusalem

29. According to Quran Al-A'raf 27, what did Satan strip Adam and Eve of?

A) Their gnosis
B) Their garments
C) Their innocence
D) Their immortality

30. What is the name of the cylinder seal linked to the Adam and Eve story?

A) Akkadian serpent seal
B) Mesopotamian creation seal
C) Babylonian tree seal
D) Adam and Eve cylinder seal

31. From which period does the Adam and Eve cylinder seal originate?

A) Post-Akkadian periods in Mesopotamia
B) First century Roman period
C) Gnostic manuscript era
D) Islamic medieval period

32. Roughly when was the cylinder seal dated?

A) 1st century CE
B) 5th century BCE
C) 23rd – 22nd century BCE
D) 10th century CE

33. Who described the seal as having two facing figures seated on each side of a tree with a serpent between their backs?

A) George Smith
B) Iblis
C) Augustine of Hippo
D) The British Museum

34. What did George Smith argue the cylinder seal gave evidence of?

A) The fall of man account was known in early times of Babylonia
B) The Latin pun on mālum
C) The Islamic concept of wheat
D) The Gnostic savior narrative

35. Which institution disputes George Smith's interpretation of the cylinder seal?

A) The Vatican
B) The British Museum
C) The University of Mesopotamia
D) The Pleroma

36. How does the British Museum interpret the figures on the cylinder seal?

A) An archon deceiving an instructor
B) Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit
C) A male deity being worshipped by a woman
D) Adam and Eve sewing leaves together

37. Which plant is suggested as the tree of knowledge because 'nothing brings wailing to the world like wine'?

A) An etrog
B) A stalk of wheat
C) A fig tree
D) A grape vine

38. What concept was born when eating and internalizing the forbidden fruit changed human nature?

A) The yetzer hara
B) The shechinah
C) The beirurim
D) The Torah

39. What is the sin of the tree of knowledge called in the Kabbalah?

A) Beirurim
B) Shechinah
C) Cheit Eitz HaDa'at
D) Yetzer hara

40. In the Kabbalah, what great task was brought about by the sin of the tree of knowledge?

A) Proverbs 30:6
B) Beirurim
C) Cheit Eitz HaDa'at
D) Yetzer hara

41. How many specific trees are mentioned in the story of the Garden of Eden in Genesis 2-3?

A) Three
B) One
C) Seven
D) Two

42. Who persuades Eve to eat the forbidden fruit in Genesis 3?

A) An angel
B) God
C) Adam
D) A serpent

43. What literary device pairs opposite terms together to create a general meaning?

A) Hyperbole
B) Alliteration
C) Metaphor
D) Merism

44. Which Egyptian expression is cited as an example parallel to the merism 'good and evil'?

A) Evil-good
B) Dark-light
C) Up-down
D) Night-day

45. According to several scholars, if the phrase means 'knowledge of everything', what does it not necessarily denote?

A) A divine command
B) A physical object
C) A moral concept
D) A historical event

46. The Hebrew behind the phrase 'doomed to die' is in a form regularly used for what purpose in the Hebrew Bible?

A) Giving blessings
B) Making prophecies
C) Naming newborns
D) Issuing death sentences

47. Which of the following is NOT listed in the text as a modern scholarly interpretation of the Hebrew term for the knowledge of good and evil?

A) Wisdom
B) Agricultural skill
C) Sexual knowledge
D) Omniscience

48. Which scholar suggests the term likely means 'the knowledge for administering reward and punishment'?

A) Nathan French
B) Adam
C) Moses
D) Robert Alter

49. According to scholar Nathan French, what is the wisdom acquired by humans in Genesis 2-3 actually about?

A) Understanding nature
B) Building civilizations
C) Wielding ultimate power
D) Speaking all languages

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