Test your knowledge of Bible "rains" by seeing how many of the questions below you can answer. The first letters (except for #9, which uses the last letter) of the correct answers spell a common occurrence of spring.

1. Who was the wicked king to whom Elijah, after the contest with the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel, said: "Get thee down, that the rain stop thee not"?
2. To whom was kindness shown by the natives "because of the present rain, and because of the cold" when he was shipwrecked in a great storm?
3. After the "windows of Heaven were stopped, and the rain from Heaven was restrained," what bird was first sent out of the ark by Noah?
4. In what book of prophecy do we read the words, "For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from Heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth . . . so shall My Word be . . . "
5. Who was saved through the prayers of his uncle when "the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire"?
6. What was the name of Noah's oldest son who was with him in the ark when the rains came?
7. What did it rain in the seventh plague in Egypt?
8. What were the children of Israel to do in order to have God "give you the rain of your land in His due season" and "a blessing"?
9. What is the last letter of the sign which God gave that He would never again destroy the world with rain and floods?
10. Who prayed earnestly that it might not rain?
11. In the parable Christ told of the two houses, what was the one built upon which stood firm when the rains came and the storm beat upon it?
12. And what was the one built upon which fell?