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100
Who is Ruth's mother-in-law?
Who is Naomi.
100
What nationality is Ruth?
What is Moabite.
100
Why did Ruth go to the barley fields?
To glean the fields.
100

This is the time of year in which the story of Ruth took place.

What is the harvest season?

100
After the death of Naomi's husband and her two sons she desired to return home. She urged her daughters-in-law to go back to their people. Ruth refused by saying what?
'Your people will be my people and your God my God'.
200
What was the name of Naomi's other daughter-in-law?
Who is Orpah.
200
Why did Ruth's husband's family leave their home?
Because of famine.
200

In the Book of Ruth, Boaz serves as Kinsman-Redeemer. What could the Kinsman-Redeemer "redeem"?

What are widows, slaves, or orphans?

200
If Ruth were regarded as a play, into how many acts would it be divided?
What is four.
200
When they arrived to Naomi's hometown Naomi said, 'Do not call me Naomi, call me Mara'. Why did she say they should call her 'Mara'?
'Because God has made my life very bitter'
300
Who was a kinsman of Naomi's husband?
Who is Boaz.
300

This was the quality that Ruth was most admired for.

What is loyalty?

300
Why was Boaz kind to Ruth when she came to glean in his fields?
He had heard of her loyalty and respected her for it.
300
Naomi and her daughter-in-law Ruth were returning from what country?
What is Moab.
300

After Boaz admires Ruth's loyalty to Naomi, he calls her this.

What is "a woman of noble character"?

400

Which famous figure in ancient Israel is a descendant of Ruth and Boaz?

Who is King David?

400
After the death of Naomi's husband and her two sons she desired to return home. She urged her daughters-in-law to go back to their people. Ruth refused by saying what?
'Your people will be my people and your God my God'.
400
This man was a kinsman of Elimelech.
Who was Boaz.
400

This is the town where Naomi was from.

What is Bethlehem?

400

Because Ruth takes on the religion of her mother-in-law Naomi, many Jews consider her to be the first one of these to Judaism.

What is a convert?

500

Boaz and Ruth had a son together. What was his name?

Who is Obed.

500

Ruth went to a field owned by a man named Boaz. What was his connection to Naomi's husband? 

He was a relative.

500

What did Ruth do for a living when she moved in with Naomi?

Nothing. When she came to Israel she was just a poor foreigner.

500

Boaz performs the mitzvah of pe'ah, which allows Ruth to do this.

What is gathering wheat, or taking unpicked crops from the corners of one's field.

500

Later that night Boaz is startled by Ruth's presence. After she identifies herself, she makes this request to Boaz .

What is asking him to marry her?

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