Answers to the Fellow Craft Discussion Questions
The goal of this education program is to give the Brother as much information as
possible in a simple, yet challenging method. The responses were designed to make you think,
dig and maybe consult with "more informed Brethren." It is the goal of this part of the course to
clarify the responses and also add to your Masonic understanding.
1. The correct response is B.
Quest book #4 - "Preston believed that one of Masonry's principle duties was to bring
light to a candidate by actually educating him; he believed that knowledge was the universal
solvent for the problems of the world."
2. The correct responses are A and C.
Quest book #4 - "Fellow Craft is one of a large number of terms with a technical meaning
peculiar to Freemasonry. A "craft" is an organization of skilled workmen in some trade or
calling: masons, carpenters, painters, etc. A "fellow" means one who holds membership in such a
craft.
3. The correct response is E.
4. The correct response is C.
It was to show that as a Fellow Craft, I was under a double tie to the
Fraternity. The actual length of the cable tow is unimportant as it is symbolic of the scope of a
brother’s ability.
5. The correct response is B.
Quest book #4 - "The Middle Chamber, which is so conspicuous in the Second Degree,
has many meanings. Among others, it is a symbol of Wisdom."
6. The correct response is C.
Quest book #4 - "... that as a Fellow Craft bearing the responsibilities and doing the
work of a man, you are entitled to a just reward, both physically and spiritually.
7. The correct response is D. Equality is a right of all people, which is symbolized in a Masonic
Lodge at the Closing of the Lodge when the Senior Warden answers that we meet upon the level.
8. The correct response is A.
Quest book #4 - "The winding stairway, however, is symbolic of life. The goal is not in
sight, but we know there is a goal - there has to be. We know not how near nor how far, but we
know it is. We can see only a small portion of the way now, but that much we can see, and that
far we can go."
9. The correct response is C.
Quest book #4 - The Fellow Craft is a man in the prime of life experienced, strong,
resourceful, and able to bear the heat and burden of the day.
10. The correct response is A and B.
"After passing the pillars, we next arrive at a flight of winding stairs consisting
of three, five and seven steps. The number three alludes to the first three degrees of Masonry, and
also to the three principle officers of the lodge.
11. The correct response is B. Obviously it is the ceremony to pass from the first degree to the
completion of the second degree, but it also represents that the candidate has also received more
light, and light in Masonry means knowledge. However, there is further light yet to come in the
third degree.
12. The correct response is E.
Quest book #4 - As being the first letter of our name for that Deity in whose existence
all Masons have professed belief. As being the initial of Geometry, regarded as the basic science
of Operative Masonry, now symbolizing to Speculative Masons the whole material universe.
13. The correct response is D.
The plumb admonishes us to walk uprightly in our several stations before God
and man, squaring our actions by the square of virtue and remembering that we are traveling
upon the level of time, to that undiscovered country, from whose born no traveler returns.
14. The correct response is C.
15. The correct response is B.
But they, being of a different tribe, could not frame to pronounce it right, and
said - - - . . . "since which time this word has been adopted as a regular word to gain admission
into all regular and well governed Lodges of Fellow Crafts. "
16. The correct response is D.
17. The correct response is E.
18. The correct response is B.
The Worshipful Master is addressing the candidate at the altar part of his discussion includes the
following . . . "On entering or retiring from a Lodge of Entered Apprentices, (also in the other
degrees) you will advance to the West of the Altar where you now kneel, and salute the
Worshipful Master with this sign. Also on rising to address the Worshipful Master, you will
salute him with this sign. "
19. The correct response is C.
Masonic Code of Minnesota (Constitution section C2.03 #14) "That no one
can be elected Master of a chartered Lodge, except at its first election, but a Master Mason who
shall have served as a Warden."