Bible Art Final Exam

During the exam time, I will give you a series of quotations from Esther, chapters 5, 6, 7, 8. I will ask you to identify the "speaker" and "speaks to." I will only ask you to identify quotations from the four main characters - Esther, Mordecai, Ahasuerus, Haman.

“What is it, Queen Esther? What is your request? Even to half of my kingdom, it shall be given you.”

King Ahasuerus to Esther

“If it pleases the king, let the king and Haman come today to a banquet that I have prepared for the king.”

Esther to King Ahasuerus

“Bring Haman quickly, so that we may do as Esther desires.”

King Ahasuerus to his attendants/servants (indirectly to Esther)

“What is your petition? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled.”

King Ahasuerus to Esther

“This is my petition and request:  If I have won the king’s favor, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and fulfill my request, let the king and Haman come tomorrow to the banquet that I will prepare for them, and then I will do as the king has said.”

Esther to King Ahasuerus

“Even Queen Esther let no one but myself come with the king to the banquet that she prepared. Tomorrow also I am invited by her, together with the king. Yet all this does me no good so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”

Haman to his friends and his wife Zeresh

“What honor or distinction has been bestowed on Mordecai for this?”

King Ahasuerus to servants/attendants

“Who is in the court?”

King Ahasuerus to servants/attendants

“Let him come in.”

King Ahasuerus to servants/attendants

“What shall be done for the man whom the king wishes to honor?”

King Ahasuerus to Haman

“Whom would the king wish to honor more than me?”

Haman to himself

“For the man whom the king wishes to honor, ⁸ let royal robes be brought, which the king has worn, and a horse that the king has ridden, with a royal crown on its head. ⁹ Let the robes and the horse be handed over to one of the king’s most noble officials; let him^[b] robe the man whom the king wishes to honor, and let him^[c]conduct the man on horseback through the open square of the city, proclaiming before him: ‘Thus shall it be done for the man whom the king wishes to honor.’ ”

Haman to King Ahasuerus

“Quickly, take the robes and the horse, as you have said, and do so to Mordecai the Jew who sits at the king’s gate. Leave out nothing that you have mentioned.”

King Ahasuerus to Haman

“Thus shall it be done for the man whom the king wishes to honor.”

Haman to the people in the open square of the city

“What is your petition, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled.”

King Ahasuerus to Esther

“If I have won your favor, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me—that is my petition—and the lives of my people—that is my request. For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have held my peace, but no enemy can compensate for this damage to the king.”

Esther to King Ahasuerus

“Who is he, and where is he, who has presumed to do this?”

King Ahasuerus to Esther

“A foe and an enemy, this wicked Haman!”

Esther to King Ahasuerus

“Will he even violate the queen in my presence, in my own house?”

King Ahasuerus to everyone present at the banquet (about Haman)

“Hang him on that.”

King Ahasuerus to his servants (about Haman)

“If it pleases the king, and if I have won his favor, and if the thing seems right before the king, and I have his approval, let an order be written to revoke the letters devised by Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote giving orders to destroy the Jews who are in all the provinces of the king. ⁶ For how can I bear to see the calamity that is coming on my people? Or how can I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?”

Esther to King Ahasuerus

“See, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hung him on the pole because he plotted to kill^[f] the Jews.⁸ You may write as you please with regard to the Jews, in the name of the king, and seal it with the king’s ring, for an edict written in the name of the king and sealed with the king’s ring cannot be revoked.”

King Ahasuerus to Esther and Mordecai