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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 become angels or immortal
C) The fruit was poisonous
D) They would die immediately

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

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

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

A) Used animal skins
B) Asked God for clothes
C) Sewed together leaves from the Garden
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 an unforgivable crime
C) As a 'slip'
D) As original sin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A) Mesopotamian creation seal
B) Babylonian tree seal
C) Adam and Eve cylinder seal
D) Akkadian serpent 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) 10th century CE
B) 5th century BCE
C) 1st century CE
D) 23rd – 22nd century BCE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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) Issuing death sentences
C) Naming newborns
D) Making prophecies

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

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

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

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

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

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