22 Hard Revelation 12 Quiz Questions and Answers

Answer 1: A: The great dragon was red. Distractor E (scarlet) is the sharpest trap, drawn from chapter seventeen, where another beast is described as scarlet-colored. Both beasts share overlapping imagery, making the color distinction require close attention to chapter location.
KJV Reference: Revelation 12:3, “And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon.”

Answer 2: B: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon. Distractor E (Apollyon) is the angel of the bottomless pit named in chapter nine, making him a plausible false recall from elsewhere in the Apocalypse.
KJV Reference: Revelation 12:7, “And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon.”

Answer 3: C: The man child was to rule all nations with a rod of iron. Distractor E (a rod of gold) copies the correct object while substituting the wrong material. A student who recalls “rod” but confuses the material will select E.
KJV Reference: Revelation 12:5, “And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron.”

Answer 4: E: The dragon was called the Devil and Satan in verse nine. Distractors A (Abaddon) and C (Apollyon) are the Hebrew and Greek names of the angel of the bottomless pit from chapter nine, which is associated with the same character but named differently there.
KJV Reference: Revelation 12:9, “And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world.”

Answer 5: B: The woman wore a crown of twelve stars. Distractor A (seven) is drawn from chapter one, where Christ holds seven stars. Distractor C (twenty-four) echoes the number of elders. Distractor D (ten) names the number of the dragon’s horns in the same chapter.
KJV Reference: Revelation 12:1, “and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.”

Answer 6: A: The dragon’s tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. The third-part fraction appears repeatedly in the trumpet judgments of chapters eight and nine, so a student who conflates chapter contexts might consider the other fractions equally plausible.
KJV Reference: Revelation 12:4, “And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth.”

Answer 7: C: He knew that he had but a short time. Distractor B (long) is the direct opposite of the correct answer, requiring the student to know the actual word used rather than guess at an approximation. Distractor D (close) sounds similar in implication but is not the term the verse uses.
KJV Reference: Revelation 12:12, “knowing that he hath but a short time.”

Answer 8: D: They overcame by the word of their testimony. Verse eleven also names the blood of the Lamb as a second means and adds that they loved not their lives unto death. The compound E (A and C) fails because prayer and works are not among the means listed in verse eleven.
KJV Reference: Revelation 12:11, “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony.”

Answer 9: B: The dragon had seven heads. Distractor D (ten) is the number of the dragon’s horns, not its heads. Both figures appear in the same verse, making the cross-detail confusion between heads and horns the primary trap.
KJV Reference: Revelation 12:3, “a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns.”

Answer 10: C: She was nourished for a time, and times, and half a time. This formula is drawn from Daniel 7:25 and 12:7 and is equivalent to three and a half years, the same period as the 1260 days in verse six and the forty and two months of chapter eleven.
KJV Reference: Revelation 12:14, “where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time.”

Answer 11: A: The wilderness place was prepared to feed her for a thousand two hundred and threescore days, which is 1260. Distractors C (1290) and D (1335) are numbers from Daniel 12 that appear in end-times chronology and may trap students who conflate the two books.
KJV Reference: Revelation 12:6, “the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.”

Answer 12: D: The dragon went to make war with the remnant of the woman’s seed, those who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. The other options use biblical language that sounds plausible but does not match the specific phrase the verse supplies.
KJV Reference: Revelation 12:17, “And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.”

Answer 13: B: The serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood, intending to sweep the woman away. The compound D (A and C) fails because neither of its components describes what the serpent cast; both draw on judgment imagery from elsewhere in Revelation, not from this verse.
KJV Reference: Revelation 12:15, “And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.”

Answer 14: C: The earth opened her mouth and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast from his mouth. Distractor E (it split and closed) describes the same general physical mechanism but misses the specific detail that the earth absorbed the flood by swallowing rather than merely dividing.
KJV Reference: Revelation 12:16, “And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.”

Answer 15: A: The man child was caught up unto God and to his throne. Distractor B (the highest of heavens) captures the direction but omits the specific destination named: God’s own throne. The verse requires both elements together.
KJV Reference: Revelation 12:5, “And her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.”

Answer 16: E: The dragon stood before the woman to devour her child as soon as it was born. This pattern of a hostile power seeking to destroy a deliverer at birth echoes Pharaoh’s slaughter of Hebrew infants and Herod’s massacre of the children of Bethlehem.
KJV Reference: Revelation 12:4, “And the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.”

Answer 17: D: The dragon had ten horns. Distractor C (seven horns) names the number of the dragon’s heads, not its horns. Both numbers appear in the same verse, so a student who merges the two counts will select C. The compound E (A and B) fails because both four and six are wrong.
KJV Reference: Revelation 12:3, “having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.”

Answer 18: B: He was called the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before God day and night. Distractor D (father of all lies) is drawn from John 8:44, and E (prince of this world) from John 14:30. Both are biblical titles for the same being but are not what verse ten of this chapter calls him.
KJV Reference: Revelation 12:10, “for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.”

Answer 19: C: The moon was under her feet. Distractor E (the stars) names what was on her head in the crown of twelve stars, making it the primary content-confusion trap for students who merge the details of verse one.
KJV Reference: Revelation 12:1, “and the moon under her feet.”

Answer 20: A: The dragon persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child. His immediate rage was directed at her. He only turned to make war with the remnant of her seed after she was given the wings of a great eagle and escaped to the wilderness.
KJV Reference: Revelation 12:13, “And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.”

Answer 21: D: The woman was given two wings of a great eagle so that she might fly into the wilderness. Distractor B (by an angel sent) is a plausible inference since angels carry out divine protection throughout Revelation, but the text specifies wings, not an angelic agent. The compound E (A and B) fails because neither a cloud nor an angel is the means the verse names.
KJV Reference: Revelation 12:14, “And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness.”

Answer 22: E: The woman was crying in travail, pained to be delivered. Distractors B (hiding) and C (exile) describe her state later in the chapter after the dragon pursues her, making them strong traps for students who conflate the early and later portions of the vision.
KJV Reference: Revelation 12:2, “And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.”