Q 01/05

Which couple founded the Salvation Army?

A) George and Elizabeth Fox

B) John and Mary Wesley

C) William and Catherine Booth

D) Charles and Susannah Wesley

Answer · why

C) William and Catherine Booth

William became the first leader; Catherine was known as the 'Mother of The Salvation Army'.

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

Unusually among Methodist bodies, it does not observe sacraments such as baptism or Holy Communion.

Q 03/05

Before founding the mission, William Booth had been apprenticed at 13 to what trade?

A) Blacksmith

B) Cobbler

C) Pawnbroker

D) Printer

Answer · why

C) Pawnbroker

His father in Nottingham could no longer afford school fees; Booth later found pawnbroking work in London too.

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

'I'm no volunteer, I'm a regular!' he said, and secretary George Scott Railton was told to substitute 'salvation'.

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

Opponents in the Skeleton Army mocked them with three B's: beef, beer and 'bacca'.