1st Degree

Question 1

Whence came you?

Answer 1

From a lodge of the holy Saints John of Jerusalem

Question 2

What came you hear to do?

Answer 2

Learn to subdue my passion and improve myself and masonry

Question 3

Then you are a mason I presume

Answer 3

I am so taken and accepted among brethren and fellows

Question 4

How did you know yourself to be a mason?

Answer 4

Having been tried, never denied, and am ready to be tried again

Question 5

How may I know you to be a mason

Answer 5

By certain signs, a token, a word, and the perfect points of my entrance

Question 6

What are the signs?

Answer 6

Right angles, horizontals and perpendiculars.

Question 7

Advance a sign

Question 8

What are the signs?

Answer 8

The Due guard of entered apprentice

Question 9

Has it an allusion?

Answer 9

It has. To the position of my hands while taking the obligation

Question 10

Have you a further sign?

Answer 10

I have

Question 11

Has that An allusion

Answer 11

It has. To the penalty of the obligation

Question 12

What is a token?

Answer 12

A certain friendly or brotherly grip whereby one Mason may know another in the dark as in the light.

Question 13

Advance and give me a token

Question 14

What is that (handshake)

Answer 14

A grip

Question 15

Of what (handshake)

Answer 15

Entered Apprentice

Question 16

Has it a name (handshake)?

Answer 16

It has

Question 17

Will you give it a name?

Answer 17

I did not receive it. Neither will I so impart it.

Question 18

How are you dispose of it?

Answer 18

Letter or halve it

Question 19

Letter it and begin

Answer 19

You begin

Question 20

Begin you

Answer 20

B-O-A-Z, BOAZ!

Question 21

Where were you first prepared to be a mason?

Answer 21

In my heart

Question 22

We’re next?

Answer 22

In a room adjoining the body of a just in duly constituted Lodge of free and accepted masons