Q 01/05

A Salvation Army children's home in Liverpool gave its name to which Beatles song?

A) Penny Lane

B) Strawberry Fields Forever

C) The Fool on the Hill

D) Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

Answer · why

B) Strawberry Fields Forever

Strawberry Fields Forever recalls the garden of Strawberry Field, the Army home near John Lennon's house where he played as a boy. The Army opened the...

Q 02/05

The Salvation Army's theology derives from which Christian tradition?

A) Anglicanism

B) Catholicism

C) Methodism

D) Calvinism

Answer · why

C) Methodism

Methodism: William Booth spent nine years as a Methodist minister before breaking away to work as a street evangelist, an approach his fellow clergy w...

Q 03/05

William Booth was apprenticed at 13 to what trade?

A) Blacksmith

B) Cobbler

C) Pawnbroker

D) Printer

Answer · why

C) Pawnbroker

Pawnbroker. His father could no longer pay his school fees, and though Booth came to hate the trade he stayed in it into his twenties, to send money h...

Q 04/05

By Army tradition, Bramwell Booth objected in 1878 to which word his father used for the movement?

A) Mission

B) Militia

C) Volunteer

D) Regiment

Answer · why

C) Volunteer

Volunteer! 'I'm no volunteer, I'm a regular or nothing', he protested, so the word was struck from the draft, 'salvation' was written in, and the move...

Q 05/05

William Booth summed up the Army's approach to the 'down and outs' with which three S's?

A) Shelter, schooling and salvation

B) Sermons, songs and salvation

C) Sobriety, service and salvation

D) Soup, soap and salvation

Answer · why

D) Soup, soap and salvation

Soup, soap and salvation, strictly in that order: feed people first, Booth said, then get them clean, and only then talk to them about God.