1.  John and Charles Wesley were born in:

     a.  1843 and 1847 in St. Simons's Island, Georgia;
     b.  a balloon carrying religious refugees from Germany to England;
     c.  1703 and 1707 in Epworth, England;
     d.  a manger.


2.  That John Wesley lived to adulthood was itself providential, since:

     a.  he was narrowly rescued in infancy from a burning house;
     b.  he was born 15th of his parents' 19 children;
     c.  neither of the above;
     d.  both "a" and "b" above.


3.  As for education, the Wesley brothers were:

     a.  trained by their mother and otherwise self-educated;
     b.  taught by a Roman Catholic nun who had fled a convent;
     c.  taught six hours daily by their mother who spoke three languages, then trained at Oxford University;
     d.  self-taught in 48 easy lessons on cassette tapes.


4.  Both John and Charles Wesley were led to a deep, personal faith by:

     a.  Moravian Christians, spiritual descendants of the Bavarian reformer John Hus, who worked long before Luther or Calvin;
     b.  an American radio evangelist from Wheaton, Illinois;
     c.  reading the works of John Calvin;
     d. Chuck Swindoll and Max Lucado.


5.  The established Church of England disapproved of John Wesley because he:

     a.  stressed personal spiritual disciplines of prayer, study and witnessing;
     b.  wore strange-looking clothes;
     c.  preached outside church buildings in fields, factories and markets;
     d.  used unfermented grape juice when serving Communion.


6.  Two groups in America whose spiritual roots go back to the Wesleys are:

     a.  Presbyterians and Episcopalians;
     b.  Arm and Hammer;
     c.  Nazarenes and Methodists;
     d.  Baptists and Rotarians.




ANSWERS:

1.  John and Charles Wesley were born in (c.) 1703 and 1707 in Epworth, England. (A visitor to St. Simons's Island, Georgia may stand, as I have, under a huge and very old oak tree where John Wesley once did preach.)
  
2.  That John Wesley lived to adulthood was itself providential, since (d.) both "a" and "b". (a.) He was narrowly rescued in infancy from a burning house, and (b) he was born 15th of his parents' 19 children.

3.  As for education, the Wesley brothers were (c.) taught six hours daily by their mother Susannah who spoke three languages, then trained at Oxford University. (For more information see www.seekinggod.org.uk/Main/preacher/susannah.html ).

4.  Both John and Charles Wesley were led to a deep, personal faith by (a.) Moravian Christians, spiritual descendants of the Bavarian reformer John Hus, who worked long before Luther or Calvin.

5.  The established Church of England disapproved of John Wesley because he (c.)  preached outside church buildings in fields, factories and markets. (Many "proper" Anglicans in the 18th century didn't mind much what else one thought or did, so long as it did not embarrass the aristocrats.)

6.  Two groups in America whose spiritual roots go back to the Wesleys are (c.)  Nazarenes and Methodists.

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