Love Under Fire

Author: Ellen G. White

Readability Level 8.8 / Points 30

280 Pages / Word Count: 126,810

1. / In what way was the second temple greater than the first?
a. / It was larger
b. / It had the ark and the 10 commandments
c. / It was inferior in every way
d. / It had the living presence of God
2. / What had helped to keep the converts sincere?
a. / Being able to talk to people who had lived with Jesus
b. / Good health and good relationships
c. / Nice churches
d. / Persecution
3. / What was changed by the early church besides setting aside the Bible Sabbath?
a. / Disbelief in a creator God
b. / Tithing
c. / What they ate
d. / Worship of relics
4. / What spiritual burden did the Waldenses lift from the people?
a. / Laws that made the Sabbath hard to keep
b. / Problems with the leaders of their country
c. / Requirements of an advanced education
d. / Saving themselves by their good works
5. / Why did parents stop sending their children to the universities?
a. / It cost too much money
b. / monks talked their children into becoming beggars
c. / Heretics like the Waldenses were corrupting the youth
d. / They weren’t learning much.
6. / How did John Huss die?
a. / Burned at the stake
b. / Like he was going to a marriage feast
c. / Singing joyfully
d. / All of these
7. / What was an indulgence?
a. / Allowing someone to stay in your home
b. / Encouraging church people to be holy
c. / Permission to sin without being sorry about it
d. / Telling people their sins could never be forgiven
8. / Why didn’t Charles V accept Luther’s messages from the Bible?
a. / He refused to receive light that went beyond what his fathers had accepted.
b. / He was afraid of the people
c. / He wanted to be pope
d. / The papacy paid him to stay with them
9. / Why was Zwingli told by his people he could not go to Baden to explain his beliefs?
a. / Baden was in the middle of a civil war
b. / He might get the Plague (Great Death)
c. / Many had been martyred there
d. / They did not think he could answer Dr. Eck very well
10. / Who helped Luther write the Augsburg Confession?
a. / Calvin
b. / John of Saxony
c. / Melanchthon
d. / Wycliffe
11. / What happened to change the mind of the king of France?
a. / An image of Mary was mutilated
b. / The King was threatened in his own bedroom
c. / Several priests were burned at the stake
d. / Whole families were forced to be Calvinists
12. / Denmark was different in handlingTausen’s preaching in that they did not ______.
a. / Burn him or confine him to a dungeon
b. / Expel him from the monastery
c. / Oppose his going to Wittenberg
d. / Disagree with his preaching from the Bible
13. / Why didn’t scholarly theologians proclaim the Millerite message of Christ’s Return?
a. / They were not searching the Scriptures diligently and prayerfully
b. / They knew no one knows the day or the hour
c. / They were confused by the split prophesy
d. / Angels hid the knowledge from them because they were evil.
14. / What is Spiritual Adultery?
a. / Allowing worldly things to fill the life
b. / Mixing religion and secular life
c. / Leaving truth to join a false church
d. / Being proud and selfish
15. / What did the Lamblike beast do?
a. / Spoke like a dragon
b. / Caused the earth to worship the first beast
c. / Told people to make an image
d. / All of these
16. / Why did God let Satan stay in heaven so long after he started rebelling?
a. / God was trying to talk the other angels into apologizing and rejoining God’s army
b. / The other angels needed to see what serving him would lead to.
c. / God didn’t realize at first how bad it was going to get
d. / All of these
17. / What keeps people from being saved?
a. / Sinning willfully
b. / Belittling God’s law
c. / Doing things that we know weakens our bodies
d. / All of these
18. / Which group are in the greatest danger?
a. / Those who argue about the Bible
b. / Those who think they cannot overcome sin
c. / Those who deny that the devil exists
d. / Those who think they have a lot of time to make changes
19. / What will Satan do to convince people to follow him?
a. / Bring disease and disaster
b. / Miracles
c. / Bible studies
d. / Allowing everyone to do what they want
20. / What decree brings on the Second Coming?
a. / To kill God’s people
b. / To exile God’s people
c. / To burn all the Bibles
d. / Drop atomic bombs on all the earth