25 Comprehensive Revelation 17 Quiz Questions and Answers

Answer 1: B: The woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth. A borrows from verse five, which names the woman Mother of Harlots, but the verse eighteen identification is the great city, not that title.
KJV Reference: Revelation 17:18, “And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.”

Answer 2: D: The full inscription was MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. A replaces Harlots with Nations. B substitutes seven hills for Babylon, drawing on a common interpretive tradition but not what verse five actually says.
KJV Reference: Revelation 17:5, “MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”

Answer 3: A: The ten kings receive power as kings one hour with the beast. The brevity of one hour underscores how short-lived their reign is compared to the beast’s own span.
KJV Reference: Revelation 17:12, “receive power as kings one hour with the beast.”

Answer 4: C: The woman had a golden cup in her hand, full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication. B (scarlet banner) is drawn from the chapter’s scarlet color scheme; but the object in her hand is a cup, not a banner.
KJV Reference: Revelation 17:4, “having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication.”

Answer 5: E: The Lamb is called Lord of lords and King of kings. Both A (King of kings) and C (Lord of lords) are verifiably present in verse fourteen. B (God of gods) and D (Prince of princes) do not appear in the text, so the compound E is the only option that captures the full answer.
KJV Reference: Revelation 17:14, “for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings.”

Answer 6: B: The beast was scarlet coloured. A (purple) is the sharpest trap: the woman herself is arrayed in purple and scarlet, and a student who confuses the woman’s garments with the beast’s color will reach for A.
KJV Reference: Revelation 17:3, “I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast.”

Answer 7: D: The beast shall ascend out of the bottomless pit and go into perdition. E reverses the sequence: perdition is the beast’s destination, not its origin.
KJV Reference: Revelation 17:8, “shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition.”

Answer 8: C: The ten horns made the whore desolate and naked, ate her flesh, and burned her with fire. Verse sixteen names four distinct acts of judgment against her; this question tests one. The other options are not among the four named acts.
KJV Reference: Revelation 17:16, “these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.”

Answer 9: A: The waters are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. B through E all mix correct and incorrect elements or substitute synonyms for the exact nouns the verse gives.
KJV Reference: Revelation 17:15, “The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.”

Answer 10: E: The woman was drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. A (wine of her own fornication) is what the kings and inhabitants of the earth are made drunk with in verse two; a different group in the same chapter.
KJV Reference: Revelation 17:6, “I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.”

Answer 11: B: Verse nine identifies the seven heads as seven mountains on which the woman sitteth. E echoes the opening of Revelation but belongs to a different passage.
KJV Reference: Revelation 17:9, “The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.”

Answer 12: C: One of the seven angels which had the seven vials came to show John the judgment. D is the sharpest trap: the seven angels of the churches are the most memorable set of seven angels in Revelation, and a student who reaches for the familiar group will select D.
KJV Reference: Revelation 17:1, “there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials.”

Answer 13: D: The inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. A is drawn from verse four, where the golden cup is full of abominations; that describes what the cup contains, not what the people drink.
KJV Reference: Revelation 17:2, “the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.”

Answer 14: B: The beast is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition. E inverts and corrupts the divine title “which art, and wast, and shalt be”; it sounds familiar enough to trap a student who conflates the beast’s description with God’s own.
KJV Reference: Revelation 17:11, “the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.”

Answer 15: E: When the seventh king cometh, he must continue a short space. All other options describe a duration but none appears in verse ten.
KJV Reference: Revelation 17:10, “when he cometh, he must continue a short space.”

Answer 16: C: The ten kings shall give their power and strength unto the beast. E sounds close but the verse names power and strength, not thrones or kingdoms.
KJV Reference: Revelation 17:13, “These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.”

Answer 17: A: The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour. B combines one correct color with the materials she is decked with, turning two elements of verse four into a single plausible but wrong answer.
KJV Reference: Revelation 17:4, “And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour.”

Answer 18: B: John wondered with great admiration. The KJV word admiration carries the sense of astonishment, not approval; the angel’s response in verse seven confirms that John’s wonder was a problem, not a compliment.
KJV Reference: Revelation 17:6, “when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.”

Answer 19: E: God put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast. A is a strong trap: the ten horns do hate the whore in verse sixteen, but that outcome flows from what God put in their hearts, not the content of that inward work.
KJV Reference: Revelation 17:17, “For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast.”

Answer 20: D: The angel carried John away in the spirit into the wilderness. A is drawn from chapter twenty-one, where John is carried to a great high mountain to see the new Jerusalem; a precise cross-chapter trap for students who know both passages but confuse their setting.
KJV Reference: Revelation 17:3, “So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness.”

Answer 21: C: Those with the Lamb are called, and chosen, and faithful. Compound D fails because neither holy nor pure appears in verse fourteen. E substitutes true and holy for the correct words, using language from elsewhere in Revelation.
KJV Reference: Revelation 17:14, “they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.”

Answer 22: B: Their names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world. The other options paraphrase loosely but none uses the precise phrase the verse gives.
KJV Reference: Revelation 17:8, “whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world.”

Answer 23: E: The angel offered to tell John the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her. B is wrong because the angel names both the woman and the beast; isolating one half makes B false.
KJV Reference: Revelation 17:7, “I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.”

Answer 24: D: The ten kings receive power as kings one hour with the beast. C is drawn from verse fourteen, where these kings do make war with the Lamb, but verse twelve describes what they receive, not what they do with it.
KJV Reference: Revelation 17:12, “receive power as kings one hour with the beast.”

Answer 25: A: The beast had seven heads and ten horns. B keeps the first number correct but halves the horns. C reverses the pairing, swapping the two numbers between their correct attributes.
KJV Reference: Revelation 17:3, “a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.”