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40 Questions on the Book of Daniel with Answers, Chapter by Chapter

Updated November 10, 2026

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A free list of 40 questions on the book of Daniel, at a medium level, each with an answer and a Bible reference; half are multiple choice with four options. They run through all 12 chapters in order: Daniel in the court of Babylon, the statue, the fiery furnace, the lions' den, and the visions of chapters 7 to 12. Use them for a group study or a Bible quiz competition.

The book of Daniel has two parts. Chapters 1 to 6 tell how Daniel and his friends stayed faithful in the courts of Babylon and Persia, and chapters 7 to 12 bring visions about the kingdoms of the earth and the eternal kingdom of God. These 40 questions follow the book in order, grouped by chapters, so they can serve as a study guide while you read.

Half the questions have four options (A, B, C, and D) and the other half ask for the answer directly. Each one has the exact reference so you can open your Bible and check. If you want questions about the prophet's life, see also the lists about Daniel as a person.

The questions, with answers and references

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Chapters 1 and 2: the court of Babylon and the dream of the statue

  1. 1. In which year of the reign of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, did Nebuchadnezzar besiege Jerusalem?

    • A) The first
    • B) The second
    • C) The third
    • D) The sixth

    Answer: C) The third — Daniel 1:1

  2. 2. What did Nebuchadnezzar carry off from the house of God to the land of Shinar?

    Answer: Some of the vessels of the house of God, which he put in the treasury of his god — Daniel 1:2

  3. 3. For how many years were the young men to be trained in the literature and language of the Chaldeans?

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

    Answer: C) Three — Daniel 1:4-5

  4. 4. How did Daniel and his friends look at the end of the ten-day test?

    Answer: Better in appearance and fatter than the young men who ate the king's food — Daniel 1:15

  5. 5. How many times better than all the magicians and enchanters did the king find Daniel and his friends?

    • A) Two times
    • B) Seven times
    • C) Ten times
    • D) One hundred times

    Answer: C) Ten times — Daniel 1:20

  6. 6. What did Nebuchadnezzar demand of his wise men concerning the dream that troubled him?

    Answer: That they tell him the dream itself and its interpretation, on pain of death — Daniel 2:1-9

  7. 7. Who was the captain of the king's guard sent to kill the wise men of Babylon?

    • A) Ashpenaz
    • B) Arioch
    • C) Melzar
    • D) Nebuzaradan

    Answer: B) Arioch — Daniel 2:14

  8. 8. What was each part of the statue in the dream made of, from head to feet?

    Answer: Head of fine gold; chest and arms of silver; belly and thighs of bronze; legs of iron; feet partly iron and partly baked clay — Daniel 2:32-33

  9. 9. What reward did Nebuchadnezzar give Daniel after he interpreted the dream?

    • A) He made him the king's cupbearer
    • B) He made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon and chief of all the wise men
    • C) He let him return to Jerusalem
    • D) He made him captain of his guard

    Answer: B) He made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon and chief of all the wise men — Daniel 2:48

Chapters 3 and 4: the fiery furnace and the dream of the tree

  1. 10. How tall was the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar set up?

    • A) Six cubits
    • B) Twelve cubits
    • C) Sixty cubits
    • D) One hundred cubits

    Answer: C) Sixty cubits — Daniel 3:1

  2. 11. Where did Nebuchadnezzar set up the golden image?

    Answer: On the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon — Daniel 3:1

  3. 12. How many times hotter than usual did the king order the furnace heated?

    • A) Three times
    • B) Seven times
    • C) Ten times
    • D) Twelve times

    Answer: B) Seven times — Daniel 3:19

  4. 13. What happened to the men who threw Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego into the furnace?

    Answer: The flames killed them — Daniel 3:22

  5. 14. What did the satraps and governors see when the three young men came out of the furnace?

    • A) They had minor burns
    • B) Their clothes were burned
    • C) The fire had not harmed them: not a hair of their heads was singed, and there was no smell of fire on them
    • D) The furnace had gone out

    Answer: C) The fire had not harmed them: not a hair of their heads was singed, and there was no smell of fire on them — Daniel 3:26-27

  6. 15. What did Nebuchadnezzar see in the dream in chapter 4?

    Answer: A great, strong tree in the middle of the earth, its top reaching to heaven, which a holy watcher ordered cut down, leaving the stump of its roots — Daniel 4:10-15

  7. 16. What advice did Daniel give the king when he interpreted the dream of the tree?

    • A) To build a temple to the God of heaven
    • B) To free the Jewish captives
    • C) To break off his sins by doing righteousness and his iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed
    • D) To fast for forty days

    Answer: C) To break off his sins by doing righteousness and his iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed — Daniel 4:27

  8. 17. What did Nebuchadnezzar say, walking on his palace roof, just before the dream came true?

    Answer: "Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?" — Daniel 4:29-30

Chapters 5 and 6: the writing on the wall and the lions' den

  1. 18. For how many of his lords did Belshazzar hold a great feast?

    • A) One hundred
    • B) Five hundred
    • C) A thousand
    • D) Ten thousand

    Answer: C) A thousand — Daniel 5:1

  2. 19. From what vessels did Belshazzar and his guests drink at the feast?

    Answer: The gold and silver vessels that Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple in Jerusalem — Daniel 5:2-4

  3. 20. Who reminded Belshazzar that Daniel could interpret the writing?

    • A) A Chaldean wise man
    • B) The queen
    • C) The chief of the eunuchs
    • D) Darius the Mede

    Answer: B) The queen — Daniel 5:10-12

  4. 21. What happened to Belshazzar on the very night of the writing on the wall?

    Answer: He was killed, and Darius the Mede received the kingdom at about the age of sixty-two — Daniel 5:30-31

  5. 22. How many satraps did Darius set over the kingdom?

    • A) Twelve
    • B) Seventy
    • C) One hundred twenty
    • D) One hundred twenty-seven

    Answer: C) One hundred twenty — Daniel 6:1

  6. 23. For how many days did Darius' decree forbid making a petition to any god or man except the king?

    Answer: Thirty days — Daniel 6:7-9

  7. 24. How was the stone laid over the mouth of the lions' den sealed?

    • A) With wax and cords
    • B) With the seal of the temple
    • C) With bronze chains
    • D) With the king's signet ring and the signet rings of his lords

    Answer: D) With the king's signet ring and the signet rings of his lords — Daniel 6:17

  8. 25. What happened to the men who had accused Daniel?

    Answer: They were thrown into the den with their children and wives, and before they reached the bottom the lions overpowered them and broke all their bones — Daniel 6:24

Chapters 7 to 9: the beasts, the ram and the goat, the seventy weeks

  1. 26. What did the first beast that Daniel saw rising from the sea in chapter 7 look like?

    • A) Like a lion with eagles' wings
    • B) Like a bear
    • C) Like a leopard with four heads
    • D) Like a male goat

    Answer: A) Like a lion with eagles' wings — Daniel 7:3-4

  2. 27. What did the bear in Daniel's vision in chapter 7 have between its teeth?

    Answer: Three ribs — Daniel 7:5

  3. 28. How many horns did the fourth beast, dreadful and terrifying, have?

    • A) Two
    • B) Four
    • C) Seven
    • D) Ten

    Answer: D) Ten — Daniel 7:7

  4. 29. How does Daniel describe the Ancient of Days?

    Answer: His clothing white as snow, the hair of his head like pure wool, and his throne fiery flames — Daniel 7:9

  5. 30. Who came with the clouds of heaven and received an everlasting dominion in Daniel's vision in chapter 7?

    • A) The archangel Michael
    • B) One like a son of man
    • C) King Cyrus
    • D) A ram with two horns

    Answer: B) One like a son of man — Daniel 7:13-14

  6. 31. According to Gabriel, what did the two-horned ram and the male goat in Daniel's vision in chapter 8 represent?

    Answer: The ram, the kings of Media and Persia; the goat, the king of Greece — Daniel 8:20-21

  7. 32. By which river was Daniel in the vision of the ram and the goat?

    • A) The Tigris
    • B) The Chebar
    • C) The Ulai
    • D) The Euphrates

    Answer: C) The Ulai — Daniel 8:2

  8. 33. Through the words of which prophet did Daniel understand that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years?

    Answer: Jeremiah — Daniel 9:2; Jeremiah 25:11-12

  9. 34. At what time did Gabriel come while Daniel was praying and confessing the sins of his people?

    • A) At midnight
    • B) At dawn
    • C) About the time of the evening sacrifice
    • D) At noon

    Answer: C) About the time of the evening sacrifice — Daniel 9:20-21

Chapters 10 to 12: the last vision and the time of the end

  1. 35. For how long did Daniel mourn, eating no delicacies and no meat, in chapter 10?

    Answer: Three weeks — Daniel 10:2-3

  2. 36. By which great river did Daniel see the man clothed in linen?

    • A) The Ulai
    • B) The Jordan
    • C) The Nile
    • D) The Tigris

    Answer: D) The Tigris — Daniel 10:4-5

  3. 37. Who came to help the heavenly messenger when the prince of the kingdom of Persia resisted him for twenty-one days?

    Answer: Michael, one of the chief princes — Daniel 10:13

  4. 38. According to Daniel 11:32, what will the people who know their God do?

    • A) They will flee to the mountains
    • B) They will stand firm and take action
    • C) They will keep silent
    • D) They will build an altar

    Answer: B) They will stand firm and take action — Daniel 11:32

  5. 39. What does chapter 12 say about the many who sleep in the dust of the earth?

    Answer: They will awake, some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt — Daniel 12:2

  6. 40. What did the angel promise Daniel in the last verse of the book?

    • A) That he would see the temple rebuilt
    • B) That he would return to Jerusalem with Cyrus
    • C) That he would rest and rise to receive his allotted inheritance at the end of the days
    • D) That he would be taken up to heaven like Elijah

    Answer: C) That he would rest and rise to receive his allotted inheritance at the end of the days — Daniel 12:13

How to study the book of Daniel with these questions

  • One set per meeting: read the chapters of the set together and answer the questions at the end, with Bibles open.
  • Review quiz: use only the multiple-choice questions for a quick review in which everyone answers at once.
  • Two halves of the book: compare Daniel's faithfulness in chapters 1 to 6 with the hope in God's kingdom in chapters 7 to 12.
  • Bible quiz competition: chapters 1 to 6 work for the whole group; the visions in chapters 7 to 12 are good for the final round.

Activities to use with these questions

Open the meeting with a Bible activity and close with the questions from this list. Each page has step-by-step instructions, a key verse and a variation for your group.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the book of Daniel about?

Chapters 1 to 6 tell of the faithfulness of Daniel and his friends in Babylon, under Nebuchadnezzar, Belshazzar, and Darius. Chapters 7 to 12 bring visions about the empires of the earth and the eternal kingdom God will establish.

Do the questions follow the order of the chapters?

Yes. The 40 questions go from chapter 1 to chapter 12 in order, grouped in five sets, so you can use them as a study guide while reading the book.

How is this list different from the lists about Daniel the person?

The lists about Daniel as a person focus on the prophet's life. This list goes through the whole book, including Nebuchadnezzar's dreams, Belshazzar's feast, and the visions of the last chapters.

Is there a printable PDF?

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