Tarot Quiz for Beginners

Questions from every lesson of the course. Pick one answer — after each one you'll see a short explanation.

  1. What two parts make up a tarot deck?
    • 40 Major and 38 Minor
    • 22 Major and 78 Minor
    • 56 Major and 22 Minor
    • 22 Major and 56 Minor Arcana
  2. What number is The World?
    • 0
    • 20
    • 21
    • 22
  3. Cups are…
    • Earth and money
    • Water and feelings
    • Fire and action
    • Air and thoughts
  4. Fire and Water in neighbouring cards…
    • Support each other
    • Mean nothing
    • Always mean yes
    • Clash: one puts out the other
  5. A Five in any suit speaks of…
    • An outcome
    • A choice
    • Crisis and the hard middle
    • A beginning
  6. What is the Five of Pentacles most likely about?
    • A journey
    • A lack of money
    • New love
    • Victory
  7. What does the Knight's rank mean among the court cards?
    • A beginner
    • Maturity turned inward
    • Maturity turned outward
    • Movement
  8. You don't like a reading's answer. What do you do?
    • Ask about someone else
    • Change decks
    • Write it down and come back a day later
    • Redraw until you get the answer you want
  9. Which card is called the wish card?
    • The Hanged Man
    • Nine of Cups
    • Ten of Swords
    • The Tower
  10. What does The Hanged Man answer in a Yes or No reading?
    • Yes
    • No
    • It doesn't take part
    • Maybe
  11. Which card do you start with in a three-card reading?
    • The last one
    • Any Major Arcana card
    • The middle one
    • The first one
  12. Lesson 9 example: Five, Ace and Eight of Pentacles. The overall reading?
    • You should change jobs
    • The worst is over, but the money will come through painstaking work
    • There will be no money
    • The money will come by itself
  13. What's true of cards like Death and The Tower?
    • They always mean disaster
    • Beginners shouldn't draw them
    • They are removed from the deck
    • The scary pictures are drawn to be remembered, not to frighten
  14. Which deck does the course use?
    • Thoth Tarot
    • Lenormand
    • Rider-Waite
    • Tarot de Marseille
  15. Swords are…
    • Earth and money
    • Air and thoughts
    • Water and feelings
    • Fire and action
  16. How many number cards are among the Minor Arcana?
    • 56
    • 16
    • 22
    • 40
  17. What does a Six mean?
    • A beginning
    • The end of a cycle
    • Recovery and balance after a crisis
    • Crisis
  18. What does a Page often mean?
    • A conflict
    • News or a first encounter with a topic
    • The end of a cycle
    • A mature decision
  19. Which question suits a spread of several cards?
    • "Should I move this autumn?"
    • "Yes or no?"
    • "Should I move and what will happen with work?"
    • "What will help me with the move?"
  20. How much quiet time does lesson 6 suggest setting aside for a reading?
    • A whole hour
    • It doesn't matter, between messages is fine
    • 10–15 minutes
    • 1–2 minutes
  21. When does lesson 7 suggest drawing the card of the day?
    • Only at weekends
    • In the morning, then checking it against the day in the evening
    • In the evening before bed
    • Once a week
  22. Which card, in lesson 7's example, comes up on a day when you don't feel like doing anything?
    • Eight of Wands
    • Ace of Cups
    • Ten of Pentacles
    • Four of Cups
  23. The Two of Pentacles with a "maybe" suggests that…
    • There will be a loss
    • You'll have to wait a year
    • You're juggling too much
    • It's all decided already
  24. What is the "You, the other person, the relationship" layout for?
    • A yes or no answer
    • Questions about a partner or colleagues
    • Questions about money
    • The card of the day
  25. What does the Ten of Swords reversed mean?
    • A new collapse
    • Great luck
    • Betrayal
    • Recovery after a collapse
  26. How does lesson 10 suggest a beginner handle reversed cards?
    • Take them out of the deck
    • Always treat them as a no
    • Learn the 78 upright meanings first, then add reversals
    • Read only reversed cards

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