Assign the short fill-in-the blank quiz. See how many the students can complete in 15 minutes.

1. The name Jesus means __.
2. Jesus’ hometown is____.
3. Jesus was born in __.
4. Luke traces Jesus’ genealogy to __.
5. Matthew traces Jesus’ genealogy to ___.
6. Nazareth is located in the province of ____.
7. Jesus probably studied the ___ like other young Jewish boys.
8. The __ was a place of Jewish assembly and worship.
9. In Matthew’s Gospel, God’s protection of his Son is symbolized by the flight to____.
10. Both _ and ____ recognized Jesus as Messiah during Jesus’ presentation in the Temple.
11. The term meaning God becoming man in Jesus is ____.
12. The angel __ announced to Mary that she would be with child.
13. The bar means ___ in the phrase “Jesus bar Mary.”
14. The Jews belived that the Messiah would come from the descendants of __.
15. Bethlehem is in the province of ___.
16. The ruthless king of Judea, ___, was a volatile mixture of policy and passion.
17. The Emperor at the time of Jesus’ birth was ____.
18. Matthew was primarily writing to a __-Christian audience.
19. Luke was primarily writing to a __-Christian audience.
20. Jesus is both__ and ____.

Answers
1. “Yahweh is salvation.”
2. Nazareth
3. Bethlehem
4. Adam
5. Abraham
6. Galilee
7. Torah
8. synagogue
9. Egypt
10. Anna, Simeon
11. Incarnation
12. Gabriel
13. son of
14. King David
15. Judea
16. Herod the Great
17. Caesar Augustus
18. Jewish
19. Gentile
20. God, Man