"Left Behind" - The First Book in the Series.. Quiz

Answer: Rayford

At the beginning of the book the pilot, Rayford Steele, sits in the cockpit thinking about his wife Irene and his two kids Chloe and Raymond Jr.

Answer: Europe

The plane that Rayford was flying was on its way to Europe, but after the disappearances happened, all planes in the USA were being rerouted to Chicago.

Answer: His wife and son

When the disappearances happen, Rayford knows that his wife and son were among the many who disappeared. When he got home to Mount Prospect, Illinois, his fear was confirmed.

Answer: At college

When the rapture took place, Chloe was away at college in California, and when she heard about what happened, she got in her car and started to drive home to Mount Prospect, Illinois.

Answer: New York

Buck's executive editor, Steve Plank, sent him a message on his computer telling him to come back to the newspaper offices in New York as soon as possible.

Answer: Rayford

Rayford knew from the moment that people disappeared, that the rapture that his wife Irene was always talking about had happened. After many sleepless nights he picks up her bible and starts to read it. He goes to her church and talks to her pastor, Bruce Barnes. Bruce gives him a video tape that Pastor Vernon Billings recorded about the rapture, before he disappeared in it. Rayford watches it and becomes a believer.

Answer: No

Chloe remains a skeptic until she hears her father try to convince Hattie and Buck of the truth. The next day on a flight to Chicago, she talks to and prays with her father. She then becomes a believer.

Answer: No

Even though Rayford told Hattie about everything that he knew to be true, Hattie would not believe anything that Rayford said to her.

Answer: True

At the pre-press conference meeting, Nicolae shoots and kills two of his men by the names of Stonagal and Todd-Cothran. He then convinces everyone in the room that they saw Stonagal rush the guard and grab his gun and shoot Todd-Cothran and then himself.

Answer: Buck

Before the meeting started, Buck sat on the floor in the restroom and accepted Jesus into his life, so he was not deceived by Nicolae's lies and deception about what really happened.

Answer: Steve Plank

When the meeting was over Buck talked to Steve Plank who swore that Buck was not at the meeting. Nobody remembered seeing Buck in the room when the two men were shot and killed, even though he was there.

Answer: Hattie

After the meeting was over Nicolae announced over the television that Hattie Durham was giving up a career in aviation to become his personal assistant.

Answer: Chicago

After Buck's boss, Stanton Bailey, finds out from Steve Plank that Buck supposedly wasn't at the meeting, he demotes Buck to a staff writer in Chicago, Illinois.

Answer: The Tribulation Force

Chloe, Buck, Rayford and Bruce are the only believers at the end of the book. They join forces and name themselves the "Tribulation Force".

Answer: 7

The people "Left Behind" after the rapture have seven long years of chaos and death ahead of them.