25 Ultimate Revelation 9 Quiz Questions and Answers

Answer 1: B: The locusts were likened to horses prepared for battle. Distractor C (chariots) echoes the imagery of their sound from verse nine, not their appearance. Distractor A (oxen) has no basis in the text. The compound D (A and C) fails because both components are false.
KJV Reference: Revelation 9:7, “And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle.”

Answer 2: A: The four angels were bound in the great river Euphrates. Distractor C (the altar’s four horns) is a trap drawn from the same chapter — a voice came from the altar’s horns, but that was the location of the command, not the binding.
KJV Reference: Revelation 9:14, “Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.”

Answer 3: C: Locusts came out of the smoke of the pit. The other options name elements of judgment from elsewhere in the Apocalypse but are not what the text says emerged from this smoke.
KJV Reference: Revelation 9:3, “And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth.”

Answer 4: D: The Hebrew name is Abaddon. Distractor A (Apollyon) is the Greek name for the same figure, given in the same verse. A student who confuses the two languages will pick A instead of D.
KJV Reference: Revelation 9:11, “whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.”

Answer 5: B: Five months is the duration given both in verse five and confirmed again in verse ten. The other months here have no basis in the text of this chapter.
KJV Reference: Revelation 9:5, “that they should be tormented five months.”

Answer 6: E: Fire, smoke, and brimstone issued out of the horses’ mouths. Distractor D is the sharpest trap — it includes fire and brimstone, both correct, but substitutes ash for the third element and omits smoke entirely.
KJV Reference: Revelation 9:17, “and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.”

Answer 7: A: The star was given the key of the bottomless pit. Distractor D (the seal of the living God) is drawn from chapter seven, where the seal is used to protect the servants of God — not from this passage.
KJV Reference: Revelation 9:1, “and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.”

Answer 8: C: The number of the horsemen was two hundred thousand thousand. Distractor E (twelve thousand times twelve) equals 144,000, the number of the sealed from chapter seven — a deliberate cross-chapter trap.
KJV Reference: Revelation 9:16, “And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand.”

Answer 9: B: Their teeth were as the teeth of lions. Distractor D (stings of scorpions) names the locusts’ tails, not their teeth. Both features appear in the same passage, making the cross-reference a strong trap.
KJV Reference: Revelation 9:8, “and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.”

Answer 10: A: The survivors repented not of the works of their hands — the idol-worship described in the same verse. The other options use biblical-sounding phrases not drawn from this text.
KJV Reference: Revelation 9:20, “repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood.”

Answer 11: D: The four angels were prepared to slay a third part of men. Distractor C (pour fire) conflates this trumpet’s judgment with the censer scene from chapter eight.
KJV Reference: Revelation 9:15, “for to slay the third part of men.”

Answer 12: E: The sound was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle. Distractor D (trumpets) is plausible in this chapter’s context but is the instrument of the angels, not the comparison used for the locust wings.
KJV Reference: Revelation 9:9, “the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.”

Answer 13: A: Men will seek death and not find it. The desire to die rather than endure the torment becomes impossible — death itself flees from them. The other options name comforts not mentioned in the text.
KJV Reference: Revelation 9:6, “And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.”

Answer 14: B: The Greek name is Apollyon. Distractor A (Abaddon) is the Hebrew name of the same figure, given in the same verse. Both names describe the angel of the bottomless pit.
KJV Reference: Revelation 9:11, “in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.”

Answer 15: C: The locusts were commanded not to hurt grass, green things, or trees. Distractor E is the sharpest trap — the locusts were ordered to hurt only those men who lacked the seal of God, not to spare them.
KJV Reference: Revelation 9:4, “that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree.”

Answer 16: A: Their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they did hurt. Distractor B (scorpions) names the locusts’ tails from the fifth trumpet, not the horses’ tails from the sixth.
KJV Reference: Revelation 9:19, “their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.”

Answer 17: D: The smoke darkened the sun and the air. Distractor A (moon and stars) names what was smitten at the fourth trumpet in chapter eight, not what the pit’s smoke darkened here.
KJV Reference: Revelation 9:2, “and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.”

Answer 18: B: A third part of men were killed. The “third” fraction governs the earlier trumpet judgments in chapter eight as well, but this is the only trumpet that kills men outright by this specific fraction.
KJV Reference: Revelation 9:18, “By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone.”

Answer 19: E: One woe is past. The text marks the close of the fifth trumpet with this single declaration. Distractor A falsely says two woes had passed, and C falsely says the four angels were already loosed at this point. The compound D (A and C) fails because both are false.
KJV Reference: Revelation 9:12, “One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.”

Answer 20: C: The locusts had on their heads crowns like gold. The material of the crowns is the precise detail the text gives. The other metals here do not appear in verse seven.
KJV Reference: Revelation 9:7, “and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold.”

Answer 21: B: Both A (murders) and C (sorceries) are verifiably listed in verse twenty-one. Deceptions (D) and rebellion against God (E) do not appear in the text. The compound B (A and C) is therefore the only option that accurately names two items from the verse.
KJV Reference: Revelation 9:21, “Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.”

Answer 22: A: The four angels were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year. The four units must be held in order: hour, day, month, year. Every other option substitutes or repositions at least one unit, making close knowledge of the verse necessary.
KJV Reference: Revelation 9:15, “which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year.”

Answer 23: D: The locusts had hair as the hair of women. The same verse also describes their faces and their teeth, making A, C, and E plausible traps for anyone who merges the description across verse seven and eight.
KJV Reference: Revelation 9:8, “And they had hair as the hair of women.”

Answer 24: E: The heads of the horses were as the heads of lions. Distractor C (serpents) names what the horses’ tails were like, not their heads. Both appear in the same passage, separated by only two verses.
KJV Reference: Revelation 9:17, “and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions.”

Answer 25: C: The voice came from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God. Distractor B is a tempting paraphrase — the altar is correct, but the specific detail is the four horns, not “sweet incense.”
KJV Reference: Revelation 9:13, “I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God.”