Smyrna & Pergamos

Question 1

Pupil of the apostle John who was taken to Rome and thrown to the wild beasts in the Colosseum, where he said: “I am God’s grain, to be ground between the teeth of wild beasts.”

Answer 1

Ignatius

Question 2

Who as a youth sat at the feet of the apostle John and was arrested and burned to death in A.D. 155?

Answer 2

Polycarp

Question 3

Christian philosopher who was thrown to the wild beasts in the arena and was beheaded at Rome in 167.

Answer 3

Justin Martyr

Question 4

Christian slave girl of southern Gaul who confessed before being cut to the throat: “I am a Christian; among us no evil is done.”

Answer 4

Blandina

Question 5

What two young women, a noble-woman and her faithful slave, were gored to death by wild beasts at Carthage on March 7, A.D. 203?

Answer 5

Perpetua and Felicitas

Question 6

What Roman emperor demanded worship as Jupiter incarnate, outlawed Christianity entirely, and inaugurated the tenth and fiercest persecution of the church (“The Great Persecution”). ordering all copies of the Scriptures to be surrendered for public bonfires in the city squares?

Answer 6

Diocletian

Question 7

What are the surface reasons for why Christians were persecuted?

Answer 7

• Christians shunned and avoided the Romans’ activities
• Christians affected certain areas of the economy
• Christians were religiously exclusive

Question 8

What economically poor yet spiritually rich church has the same linguistic root for myrrh, an embalming plant that has to be crushed in order to emit its sweet fragrance? She received no criticism from Christ.

Answer 8

Smyrna

Question 9

Give the dates for the time period in which the church experienced ten periods of intense persecution at the hands of Roman emperors.

Answer 9

A.D. 100-312

Question 10

What word describes the church of Smyrna?

Answer 10

Crushed

Question 11

What are the dates for the Smyrna church period?

Answer 11

A.D. 100-300

Question 12

Christians in Rome began secretly meeting together in what underground burial chambers?

Answer 12

Catacombs

Question 13

What kind of crown does Christ promise to all who remain loyal to Him and are martyred for His sake?

Answer 13

Crown of life

“Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.” – Rev. 2:10

Question 14

When did the Roman emperor Constantine the Great stop persecuting the church, beginning a period when the church and the world were married (united)?

Answer 14

A.D. 312

Question 15

What does the root of the word Pergamos mean?

Answer 15

“Married”

Question 16

Doctrine of worldliness.

Answer 16

Balaamism

Question 17

Those who advocated an unwarranted exaltation of the clergy over the laity.

Answer 17

Nicolaitans

Question 18

What did Constantine issue which granted freedom to all religions in the empire? When?

Answer 18

Edict of Toleration (Edict of Milan); A.D. 313

Question 19

What leader in the church in Alexandria, Egypt, began to teach that Jesus Christ was neither God nor man?

Answer 19

Arius

Question 20

What council is known for the great declaration of faith that Jesus is very God of very God? When?

Answer 20

Council of Nicea; A.D. 325

Question 21

Man whom Christ mentions in His letter to the Pergamos church and whose name means “against all.”

Answer 21

Antipas

“Then I am against all the whole world.” — Athanasius

Question 22

One of the most famous defenders of truth near the end of the fourth century; the chief defender of orthodox doctrine in the Pelagian controversy.

Answer 22

Augustine of Hippo

Question 23

In what devotional classic of prayers, praises, and meditations addressed entirely to God does Augustine celebrate his conversion?

Answer 23

The Confessions

Question 24

In what theological masterpiece, which sets forth a Christian philosophy of history that heavily influenced the medieval world, does Augustine respond to the charges of pagans blaming the Christians for the barbarians’ sacking of Rome in 410?

Answer 24

The City of God

Question 25

What British monk and theologian came to Africa from Rome about A.D. 400 and believed and taught false doctrines?

Answer 25

Pelagius

Question 26

What council condemned Pelagianism and endorsed Augustine's views? When?

Answer 26

Council of Ephesus; A.D. 431

Question 27

What was the problem of the church of Pergamos because they were broadminded and tolerant toward the Balaamites when they needed to use discipline and separate themselves from the Balaamites?

Answer 27

Laxity

Question 28

Whereas the church leaders had been called pastors in Ephesus and Smyrna, what were the church leaders in Pergamos called?

Answer 28

Priests

Question 29

From very early times, what was a center of Christian activity? It was where Frumentius became the first bishop of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.

Answer 29

North Africa

Question 30

Who, named *Sucat* ("warlike") by his parents, preached to multitudes of Irishmen?

Answer 30

Saint Patrick

Question 31

When was the last Roman emperor of the western empire removed from the throne?

Answer 31

A.D. 476

Question 32

Who was the chief defender of the faith in the *Arian* controversy?

Answer 32

Athanasius

Question 33

Ethiopian Christians remember whom as *Abba Salama* ("father of peace")?

Answer 33

Frumentius

Question 34

What does Jezebel symbolize in Christ's rebuke to the church of Thyratira?

Answer 34

Pagan idolatry and superstition

Question 35

What Irish monk and follower of Patrick's teachings evangelized Scotland?

Answer 35

Columba

Question 36

"The apostle of the Dutch" who brought the gospel to the people of the Netherlands.

Answer 36

Willibrord

Question 37

Who from southwestern England is known as "the apostle to the Germans"?

Answer 37

Boniface

Question 38

What two Greek monks were missionaries to the Slavs of Eastern Europe in the 800s?

Answer 38

Cyril and Methodius

Question 39

Priests who took vows of poverty to serve the Roman church.

Answer 39

Monks

Question 40

What pope began the process of bringing the barbarian tribesmen and the non-Roman Catholic Christians of western Europe under the rule of Rome?

Answer 40

Gregory I

Question 41

When did the monks sent by Pope Gregory arrive on the southern shore of England, soon converting the king of Kent to Catholicsim?

Answer 41

597

Question 42

What, according to church teaching, became the infallible conveyor of grace in the hands of a properly ordained priest?

Answer 42

Sacrament

Question 43

What word suggests "continual sacrifice,” the mass, which is a continual sacrifice for the living and the dead?

Answer 43

Thyratira

Question 44

The Roman doctrine that in the mass, when the priest blesses the bread and wine, a miracle occurs causing the bread to turn into the literal body of Christ and the wine to turn into the literal blood of Christ.

Answer 44

Transubstantiation

Question 45

A forty-day period prior to Easter beginning with Ash Wednesday; when fasting was observed.

Answer 45

Lent

Question 46

Whose papal reign was known as the "rule of the harlot"?

Answer 46

Sergius III

Question 47

What evil pope was killed in the act of adultery by a jealous husband? He used his palace as a place of prostitution.

Answer 47

John XII

Question 48

Who became pope at the age of 12 through money and politics?

Answer 48

Benedict IX

Question 49

What powerful pope declared that the subjection "to the Roman pope is altogether necessary for salvation"?

Answer 49

Boniface III

Question 50

Who, at 40 years of age, declared himself a prophet and began to propagate by the sword his new religion, *Islam*?

Answer 50

Mohammed

Question 51

What group, most of whom were from Albi, France, claimed that the New Testament, not the popes, provided the authority for their faith?

Answer 51

Albigenses

Question 52

What wealthy merchant became disgusted with the corruption he saw in the Roman church and, at his own expense, had the Bible translated into the people's language? What were his followers called? Their slogan was: "The Word of God speaks, and we ought to obey it."

Answer 52

Peter Waldo; Waldensians

Question 53

When did the pope announce a crusade against the Waldensians and excommunicate Peter Waldo and his followers from the Roman church?

Answer 53

1184

Question 54

A special church court established in the 1200s to inquire about and judge matters of "heresy."

Answer 54

(Roman Catholic) Inquisition

Question 55

"Morning Star of the Reformation" who began the first translation of the Scriptures into English. Who were his supporters called? "Poor Preachers"

Answer 55

John Wycliffe; Lollards

Question 56

The first nation in which an entire people could know what the Bible taught.

Answer 56

England

Question 57

What son of a peasant was influenced by the writings of John Wycliffe and taught: "Not every priest is a saint, but every saint is a priest"?

Answer 57

John Huss

Question 58

Wealthy young Italian nobleman who studied the writings of Augustine, became a pastor in *Florance*, and preached against sin, including the pope's evil ways.

Answer 58

Savonarola

Question 59

When did the Thyratira period of church history end?

Answer 59

1517

Question 60

Who with the Word of God struck at the doctrine of papal supremacy and other un-Biblical Roman dogmas?

Answer 60

Martin Luther

Question 61

How many sacraments did the Roman church eventually recognize as necessary for salvation?

Answer 61

Seven

Question 62

What word means "unmarried state"?

Answer 62

Celibacy