2 Peter Quiz — Questions and Answers
All 10 questions with the correct answer, a short explanation, and the King James Version reference. Use this page as a study guide, an answer key, or a quick review sheet.
Q1.According to the opening verse, to whom is this epistle addressed?
- A. To the twelve tribes scattered abroad
- B. To them that have obtained like precious faith ✓
- C. To the strangers scattered throughout Pontus
- D. To the church which is at Babylon
Answer: To them that have obtained like precious faith
Peter writes to those who have obtained 'like precious faith' through righteousness.
Q2.What does Peter say has been given unto us through the knowledge of Him?
- A. All things that pertain unto life and godliness ✓
- B. The keys of the kingdom of heaven
- C. A double portion of the Spirit
- D. The wealth of the Gentiles
Answer: All things that pertain unto life and godliness
His divine power hath given us all things pertaining to life and godliness.
Q3.In the 'ladder of faith,' what virtue is to be added immediately after 'temperance'?
- A. Charity
- B. Godliness
- C. Patience ✓
- D. Brotherly kindness
Answer: Patience
The sequence is temperance, then patience, then godliness.
Q4.Peter states that prophecy came not in old time by the will of man, but by what means?
- A. By the dreams of the patriarchs
- B. By the casting of lots
- C. By the observation of the stars
- D. Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost ✓
Answer: Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost
Prophecy was delivered as holy men were moved by the Holy Ghost.
Q5.Whom did God save as the 'eighth person' when He brought the flood upon the world of the ungodly?
- A. Enoch
- B. Noah ✓
- C. Methuselah
- D. Lamech
Answer: Noah
Noah is described as a preacher of righteousness and the eighth person saved.
Q6.Which Old Testament figure is described as 'just' and 'vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked'?
- A. Lot ✓
- B. Abraham
- C. Isaac
- D. Job
Answer: Lot
God delivered just Lot, who was vexed by the behavior of the wicked in Sodom.
Q7.Peter uses a proverb about which animal returning to its own vomit?
- A. A lion
- B. A wolf
- C. A dog ✓
- D. A bear
Answer: A dog
The proverb describes a dog turning to his own vomit again.
Q8.What specific measurement of time does Peter use to describe the Lord's perspective?
- A. One day is as a thousand years ✓
- B. A moment is as an eternity
- C. Seven years is as one week
- D. A generation is as a single breath
Answer: One day is as a thousand years
One day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Q9.How will the day of the Lord come, according to Peter?
- A. With the sound of a loud trumpet
- B. As a thief in the night ✓
- C. With a great earthquake
- D. As a rushing mighty wind
Answer: As a thief in the night
The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night.
Q10.Whose epistles does Peter mention, noting that they contain 'some things hard to be understood'?
- A. James
- B. John
- C. Jude
- D. Paul ✓
Answer: Paul
Peter refers to the writings of 'our beloved brother Paul.'