Little Pilgrim s Progress Chapters 1-5

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1 Little Pilgrim s Progress Chapters Obstinate: 2. Pliable: 3. Slough: 4. Despond: 5. What is the name of the city that Christian lives in and why does he want to leave it to go to the Celestial City? 6. Who encourages Christian to make the journey? 7. Evangelist give Christian a message written in beautiful gold writing. What is the message? Who is it from? 8. The message comes from Proverbs 8:17. Read the verse in your Bible and write down what the verse means to you? 9. How do Obstinate and Pliable react to Christian s decisions to go to the King s city? 10. Describe the first danger Christian and Pliable encounter and their different reactions to this discouragement. 11. What happened to Christian s mother? Where does he hope to see her again?

2 Allegorical Ideas Name in the Story What It Really Means

3 Characters Characters with a Positive Influence on Christian s Journey Characters with a Negative Influence on Christian s Journey

4 Little Pilgrim s Progress Chapters Symbol: 2. Goodwill: 3. Interpreter: 4. Summarize Mr. Worldly s message to Christian in Chapter 6? 5. Read Matthew 7:7-8. What is promised to the person who asks? The one who knocks? 6. Why does the Wicked Prince command his soldiers to shoot arrows at those knocking at the Wicked-gate? 7. Now that Christian is through the gate, he is officially the King s pilgrim. What is the name of the path he is on? How will he tell it apart from the other paths? 8. Compare and contrast the two children, Patience and Passion, from Chapter Where and by whom is Christian going to be freed of his burden? 10. Christian refers to a Book in the story. What does the Book represent?

5 Little Pilgrim s Progress Chapters Sloth: 2. Presumption: 3. Formal: 4. Hypocrisy: 5. Timid: 6. Describe Christian s arrival at the cross. 7. What are the three gifts that the Shining Ones give Christian? 8. What lessons did you learn from Presumption, Sloth, and Simple? 9. Why is it important to enter through the gate and not create shortcuts? 10. What do Formalist and Hypocrisy find to be the result of creating their own path around the Hill of Difficulty? 11. How does Christian s idleness affect his journey in chapters and how is Watchful able to help him? 12. Read Ephesians 6: Who is Christian s antagonist in the story, and who do these verses say your antagonist is?

6 Little Pilgrim s Progress Chapters Discretion: 2. Piety: 3. Prudence: 4. Charity: 5. Faithful: 6. Christian receives several pieces of armor from Discretion and her daughters. What are they and who is the true giver of the armor? 7. In chapters 19-20, who is the enemy Christian faces and how is he described? 8. Christian defeats Self with a very important truth. What is that truth? 9. Chapter 20 finds Christian in the second phase of the battle, which is now physical. What does Christian use to physically defeat the enemy? 10. Describe how the Dark Valley is especially discouraging. 11. What brings Christian comfort near the end of the valley? Look up Psalm 23:4. Write it out. 12. Who does Christian finally catch up with on his journey?

7 Little Pilgrim s Progress Chapters Justice: 2. Discontent: 3. Vexed: 4. Vanity: 5. Envy: 6. Briefly describe Faithful s pilgrimage. 7. What encouragement and warning concerning the road ahead does Evangelist give the pilgrims? 8. Why did the Wicked Prince choose to put Vanity Fair in that specific location? 9. Describe the city of Vanity Fair. 10. Why are the boys beaten in Vanity Fair. How do Faithful and Christian respond? 11. Remembering Evangelist s encouraging words, how is Faithful a victor even in his death? 12. Read Psalm 138:7, Psalm 46:1, and Psalm 56:3. How could these verses be helpful to your during a difficult experience?

8 Little Pilgrim s Progress Chapters Hopeful: 2. Stile: 3. Despair: 4. Diffidence: 5. Where does the King provide rest for Christian and Hopeful? 6. Why do the boys leave the path and cross the stile into Bypath Meadow? 7. What are horrible results of that choice? 8. What is perseverance? How do Christian and Hopeful exercise perseverance while in Giant Despair s dungeon? 9. Read James 1:2-4 and James 1:12. What do these verses teach us about perseverance? 10. How do Hopeful and Christian finally escape the dungeon of Doubting Castle?

9 Little Pilgrim s Progress Chapters Ignorance: 2. Conceit: 3. Enchanted: 4. Flattery: 5. What country is Ignorance from? Has Ignorance been through the Wicket-gate? 6. What happened to the pilgrim that the soldiers of the Wicked Prince were carrying? 7. The pilgrims have faced lions, giants, dungeons, and wicked cities. How is the Enchanted Ground just as dangerous? 8. Explain how Christian and Hopeful got trapped and then how they were rescued? 9. Why did the King s servants punish the pilgrims? 10. Read Hebrews 12:5-6, Have you ever been disobedient and been punished for it? What do these verses say about disopline?

10 Little Pilgrim s Progress Chapters Although Ignorance is careless in his pilgrimage, he meets with no trouble or difficulty.? Why? 2. Who is never permitted to enter the Land of Delight? Why are the pilgrims there? 3. Describe Ignorance s fate. 4. How does Hopeful encourage Christian as they cross the Dark River? 5. What does the Dark River symbolize? 6. Who is there to great Christian when he arrives at the Celestial City? 7. Read Ecclesiastes 4:10 and Proverbs 17:17. What do these verses tell you about friendship? 8. What have you learned from Christian and his traveling companions about being a friend and choosing a friend? Describe how you can be a better friend.

11 Little Pilgrim s Progress Project Christian and Christiana both travelled on a long adventure filled with many different twist and turns. For this project, you will create a board game that shows either Christian or Christiana s journey. You should create a board, showing several different places that the character visited. You will need to have pieces, a goal of the game, a list of directions and rules, and a type of challenge. You could set up your game like CandyLand with cards that force you to move back on the board, or like Monopoly where you might have to pay a fine to the person who owns that location. Both Christian and Christiana learned lessons as they overcame challenges at different locations. Try to incorporate some of these lessons in your game. Your game will be due on May 17 th. Little Pilgrim s Progress Project Christian and Christiana both travelled on a long adventure filled with many different twist and turns. For this project, you will create a board game that shows either Christian or Christiana s journey. You should create a board showing several different places that the character visited. You will need to have pieces, a goal of the game, a list of directions and rules, and a type of challenge. You could set up your game like CandyLand with cards that force you to move back on the board, or like Monopoly where you might have to pay a fine to the person who owns that location. Both Christian and Christiana learned lessons as they overcame challenges at different locations. Try to incorporate some of these lessons in your game. Your game will be due on May 17 th.

12 Little Pilgrim s Progress Chapters Innocence: 2. Mercy: 3. Who is Wisdom and what message does she bring to Christiana? 4. Does everyone need to have a letter from the King to enter thru the Wicket-gate? 5. What is the danger in Matthew eating the fruit that is growing over the wall? 6. Read Proverbs 16:18. What is pride? What influences Matthew to ignore his sister and continue eating the fruit? 7. If Goodwill knew the children would be in danger, why did he not send a guide with them? What must the pilgrims do to get a guide to accompany them on the journey? 8. Read Matthew 6: What is the miserable man putting his hope in? What is the true treasure that the King is longing to give him?

13 Little Pilgrim s Progress Chapters Meek: 2. Mischief 3. Arbor: 4. Briskly: 5. What do you learn about the fate of Simple Sloth, and Presumption in chapter 59? 6. Why does Mercy call the King s Arbor a forgetting place? Explain why this particular resting spot can become a place of carelessness for so many pilgrims. 7. Explain how the pilgrims make it to the Palace Beautiful. 8. From what point of view is Christiana s story told? Give examples. 9. In chapter 58 and 59, the narrator changes point of view. Pick one of these chapters and identify the change in point of view. Why would the narrator do this?

14 Little Pilgrim s Progress Chapters Industrious: 2. Heed: 3. What is Matthew s consequence for eating the fruit? 4. Read Proverbs 11:2. What does this verse tell us about what Matthew learned from his sickness and healing? 5. Piety give Christiana an anchor necklace. How was it to be an encouragements to Christiana? 6. Self often meets the pilgrims in a place called Forgotten Green. Why iis it called this? Why is it a perfect location for an attack by Self? 7. At the end of the Dark Valley, the children find a dead man alongside the road. Who was this man? How did he die?

15 Little Pilgrim s Progress Chapters After defeating the giant Maul, Great heart and the children meet another pilgrim, Mr. Honest. Where is he from? 2. What was Fearing s biggest struggle? 3. Think about some of the names of the towns and countries in the story Destruction, Conceit, and Vanity Fair. Why do you think the author choose these names? 4. Who joins Great Heart, Mr. Honest, and the children in Chapter 76? 5. How has Vanity Fair changed since Christian and Faithful were there?

16 Little Pilgrim s Progress Chapters League: 2. Valiant: 3. Diligent: 4. Despondent: 5. Who joins the pilgrim s journey in Vanity Fair? 6. Why does Christiana have to leave Innocence in the Beautiful Valley of Peace? 7. How would Isaiah 40:11 be a comforting promise for Christiana? 8. Why do Brave Heart, Mr. Honest, and the boys cross the stile after being warned by the stone message left by Christian and Faithful? 9. What does Christiana discover about Mr. Valiant? 10. Read Ephesians 6:17. What is our sword? How was this sword helpful for Mr. Valiant and how could it be helpful for you?

17 Little Pilgrim s Progress Chapters What is another name Folly uses when tempting the pilgrims? (Look back at chapter 23) 2. Why is Folly a dangerous and bad companion? 3. The pilgrims have faced lions, giants, dungeons, and wicked cities. How is the Enchanted Ground just as dangerous? 4. Fill in the blanks in Mercy s statements at the end of Chapter 89: We wer so few when we started.and now we are quite a large company! Some and some, some and some, and yet the has cared for us all. 5. In the Land of Delight, Mercy and Christiana walk along beside the Dark River. How do the two girls view the river differently? 6. Many characters have crossed the Dark River. Which one do you like the most? Why? 7. What characteristics of a good friend can you learn from Great Heart?