Michael Asks Why

Author: Sally Pierson Dillon

Copyright: ©2000 by Pacific Press®

Readability Level: 5.6

Word Count: 57,792

192 pages

Chapters1-18 (issues in Great Controversy)

This quiz is intended to be taken OPEN-BOOK

1. Just before Jerusalem fell ______.

a. a bright light shone on the altar / b. the earth trembled
c. the great eastern gate opened by itself at midnight / d. all of these

2. Catacombs were tunnels where people ______.

a. conducted schools / b. had concerts
c. stored their food / d. were buried

3. Christians lived in catacombs to avoid being ______.

a. burned and crucified / b. fed to wild dogs
c. thrown to wild animal / d. all of these

4. A mediator is a person who ______.

a. doctors the sick / b. fights with a sword and a chain
c. helps people to get along / d. punishes the guilty

5. At a Mass, people thought they were ______.

a. eating the actual body and blood of Jesus
b. going to live in the mountains
c. halfway between heaven and hello
d. whipping themselves to earn salvation

6. John Wycliffe translated the Bible into ______.

a. English / b. French / c. German / d. Spanish

7. Huss and Jerome both sand when they were ______.

a. burned to death at the stake / b. in church
c. married / d. translating the Bible into Latin

8. Monks and priests lived in ______.

a. catacombs / b. confessionals / c. mausoleums / d. monasteries

9. Some of Martin Luther's friends ______to protect him from his enemies.

a. kidnapped him / b. hid him in a cave
c. sent a legion of soldiers / d. took him to America

10. Some people blamed Zwingli for the ______.

a. Crusades / b. death of Martin Luther / c. Great Death / d. 100 Years' War

11. Luther told the Germans that the only weapon they should use was the ______.

a. Bible / b. bow and arrow / c. courts / d. songs of the Reformation

12. When a statue of the Virgin Mary was knocked down, the King of France ______.

a. became a Protestant / b. stopped defending Louis de Berquin
c. stopped praying to images / d. all of these

13. The king of ______allowed people to choose what they thought was right.

a. France / b. Germany / c. Italy / d. Sweden

14. The Lollard missionaries of Wycliffe were accused of being ______.

a. lazy / b. cowards / c. selfish / d. stupid

15. Much of the structure of our present English Bibles was written by ______.

a. Charles Wesley / b. Ellen White / c. John Tyndale / d. Menno Simons

16. In 1798 the ______was taken prisoner by a French general.

a. King of England / b. Mary Queen of Scots
c. Pharaoh of Egypt / d. Pope

17. For most religious groups, freedom meant ______.

a. doing what the Bible says
b. moving to America
c. having everyone do things the way THEY thought it should be done

18. Jesus is coming with ______.

a. the shout of the archangel / b. the sound of a trumpet
c. thousands of holy angels / d. all of these

19. Signs of Jesus' coming: ______.

a. earthquakes, tidal waves, and volcanoes
b. a lot of bad people and bad things happening
c. sun dark, moon red, and stars falling
d. all of these

20. A deist is someone who thinks ______.

a. God made the world and then left / b. he, himself, is God
c. there is no God / d. all of these

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Michael Asks Why

Author: Sally Pierson Dillon

Publisher: Pacific Press® 2000

Readability Level: 5.6

Word Count: 57,792

192 pages

Chapters 19-41 (issues in Great Controversy)

This quiz is intended to be taken OPEN-BOOK

21. William Miller was disappointed when Jesus didn't come in ______.

a. 1538 / b. 1798 / c. 1844 / d. 2000

22. Joseph Wolff preached about ______.

a. death sleep / b. Jews ruling from Jerusalem
c. Jesus' second coming / d. the seventh-day Sabbath

23 William Miller thought that the sanctuary that was to be cleaned was ______.

a. the earth / b. in heaven / c. our Milky Way galaxy / d. all of these

24. A ______gets punished for something someone else did

a. evangelist / b. mediator / c. prophet / d. scapegoat

25. Jesus is in heaven now making sure ______.

a. He has enough food for us
b. no more angels are going to rebel
c. those who want to get to heaven are wearing his garment for good
d. none of us get hurt or teased

26. The lamb-like beast is ______.

a. England / b. Germany / c. Russia / d. the United States

27. Early Adventists realized the law was important because it was ______.

a. easy to remember / b. in the sanctuary in the ark
c. kept by the Jews / d. what saved people from their sins

28. If there is no law there can be no ______.

a. reason to preach / b. Savior / c. sin / d. all of these

29. We can be sure our sins are forgiven if we ______.

a. are sorry and ask Jesus to forgive and change us / b. try to be good
c. get baptized and join the church / d. have a good reputation

30. The Great Controversy is all about if ______.

a. God is fair / b. the dead sleep or live right away
c. this world should be rebuilt / d. the seventh day is the Sabbath

31. The name of our worst enemy, ______, means enemy.

a. Gabriel / b. Lucifer / c. Satan / d. Self

32. It is a problem both to do things with Satan and his evil spirits, and to ______.

a. avoid going where they are talked to / b. demand they leave
c. deny their existence / d. protect yourself by praying to Jesus

33. Satan wants people to believe ______.

a. God will never given anyone immortality (everlasting life)
b. people don't die
c. no one goes to heaven
d. their soul will die in hell

34. The dead don't speak to us because they are ______.

a. asleep / b. burning in hell / c. not allowed to leave heaven / d. all of these

35. Traditions are things we do because ______.

a. the Bible always agrees with tradition
b. Jesus told us to always do what our ancestors did
c. they have been done that way for a long time
d. all of these

36. God's people will someday stop keeping the Sabbath because ______.

a. there will be terrible disasters
b. none of these
c. they see miracles done by Sunday-keepers
d. they will be tortured or killed otherwise

37. The only way to keep from being confused into doing something wrong is ______.

a. have confidence in ourselves
b. insist on a sign or a miracle
c. live as hermits
d. study the Bible, pray for God's help, and obey his rules

38. Spiritualism believes that the dead ______.

a. are alive but cannot talk to us / b. become gods of other planets
c. come back and talk to people / d. sleep until Jesus comes

39. During the time of Jacob's Trouble, God's people worry that ______.

a. Jesus may not come after all
b. they might be killed by the wicked
c. they'll lose their homes for keeping the Sabbath
d. They may have forgotten to confess all their sins

40. The ______will live a 1000 years on the earth right after Jesus comes.

a. devil and his angels / b. saints / c. sheep and the goats / d. wicked

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