Franklin BOOKMAN BQC-2021 User manual

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User’s Guide
BQC-2021
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C ARTRIDGE
Bible Questions
& Answers
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Contents
Welcome to the world of BOOKMAN!
Use
Bible Questions and Answers to
test your knowledge of more than
2500 Bible questions. You can choose
the section of the Bible you wish to
study, or you can try randomly selected
questions. You can also place notes
throughout this book to use as book-
marks for a quick return to a favorite
section. If you have a Franklin BOOK-
MAN Bible, you can highlight a verse
from this cartridge and send it to the
Bible to be looked up.
Use your BOOKMAN to read this
cartridge. See “Installing Cartridges”
to learn how.
Installing Cartridges and Selecting Books ..................... 3
Using the Color Keys and Changing Settings ................. 4
Viewing a Demonstration .............................................. 5
Answering Questions .................................................... 5
Viewing Cross-References ............................................. 7
Finding Study Passages ................................................ 7
Adding Notes ................................................................ 8
Removing Notes ............................................................ 8
Where Am I? ................................................................. 9
Looking Up a Verse ....................................................... 9
Looking Up a Word ........................................................ 10
Limited Warranty (U.S. only) .......................................... 11
Resetting BOOKMAN .................................................... 12
Copyrights & Patents..................................................... 12
Index ............................................................................. 13

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Function Keys
CLEAR Clears to the main menus.
MENU Shows the main menus.
QUES
(red) At text, shows the next
question; at the main menus,
selects a random question.
ANSW
(green) Shows the answer to the
selected question.
VERSE
(yellow) Highlights a verse.
LIST (blue) Shows the Notes menu.
CARD Exits the selected book.
ON/OFF Turns BOOKMAN on or off.
Key Guide
➤ Understanding the Color Keys
The color keys (red, green, yellow,
and blue) perform the functions listed
above only for the book described in
this User’s Guide.
Other BOOKMAN books have their
own color key functions, which are
labelled on their cartridges or on the
keyboard. For more information, read
“Using the Color Keys.” *
Hold
✩
while pressing the other key .
Other Keys
BACK
Backs up or turns off a highlight.
ENTER
Selects a menu item or starts a
highlight in text.
HELP
Shows help messages.
?✱
At questions, shows your
Outline location; at menus,
shows the full menu item.
Direction Keys
Move in the indicated direction.
SPACE
Types a space or pages down.
CAP
With and , zooms to the top
or bottom of a menu or text.
Star Key Combinations*
✩
+
BACK
Goes to the main menus
from lower menu levels.
✩
+
ENTER
Goes to the top level of text.
✩
+
CARD
Sends a word between books.
✩
+
DN
Shows the next question.
✩
+
UP
Showsthepreviousquestion.

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Installing Cartridges
Warning: Never install or remove a
cartridge when BOOKMAN is on. If
you do, information that you entered
in its built-in book and in an installed
cartridge will be erased.
1. Turn BOOKMAN off.
2. Turn BOOKMAN over.
3. Align the tabs on the book
cartridge with the notches in
the slot.
4. Press the cartridge until it
snaps into place.
Selecting Books
Once you have installed a book car-
tridge in your BOOKMAN, you must
select which book you want to use.
1. Turn BOOKMAN on.
2. Press CARD .
These are sample books.
3. Press or to highlight the
book you want to use.
4. Press
ENTER
to select it.
➤ Removing Cartridges
Warning: When you remove a
book cartridge to install another,
information that you entered in the
removed cartridge will be erased.
➤Resuming Where You Left Off
You can turn off BOOKMAN at
any screen. When you turn
BOOKMAN on again, the screen
that you last viewed appears.

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Using the Color Keys
The red, green, yellow, and blue keys on
your BOOKMAN change functions ac-
cording to which book is selected.
When the built-in book is selected, the
color keys function as labelled on the
BOOKMAN keyboard. When a book
cartridge is selected, the color keys
function as labelled on that cartridge.
Remember, the color keys for BOOK-
MAN books in cartridges function as
labelled on their cartridges, not as on
the keyboard.
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You can adjust the type size, shutoff
time, and screen contrast. The type
size changes the number of lines of
text that appear on screen. The shut-
off time is how long BOOKMAN stays
on if you forget to turn it off.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Press or to highlight the
Other menu.
3. Highlight Set Type Size, Set
Shutoff or Set Contrast.
The slanted arrow shows there
are sub-menu items.
4. Press
ENTER
.
5. Highlight a setting.
Or press and if you selected
Set Contrast.
6. Press
ENTER
to select it.
Or press
BACK
to exit without
changing the setting.
Changing Settings

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There are two ways to find questions
and answers. You can choose the sec-
tion of the Bible you want to study or
you can view randomly picked ques-
tions.
Choosing Question Sections
NOTE: For this example we will choose
questions from the New Testament.
You would do the same to find ques-
tions in the Old Testament.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Press to highlight New
Testament.
The slanted arrow ( ) at the right
of the line shows there are more
levels below
New Testament .
3. Press
ENTER
to select it.
Answering Questions
▲
Viewing a Demonstration
Before you begin playing the games, you
may want to view a brief demonstration de-
scribing how to use this book. Simply install
the book card and then follow these steps.
1. Press
MENU
, if necessary.
2. Use or to highlight the
Setup menu.
3. Press to highlight View Demo.
4. Press
ENTER
to start the
demonstration.
5. To stop the demonstration at
any time, press
CLEAR
.
➤ Follow the Arrows
The flashing arrows on the right of
the screen show which arrow keys
you can press to move around
menus or to view more text.
➤Help is Always at Hand
You can view a help message at
virtually any screen by pressing
HELP
. Press or SPACE to read it.
To exit help, press
BACK
.
If you want to read a tutorial about
what the keys and menus do, select
Tutorial from the Other menu.

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4. Press to highlight a section
of the New Testament (e.g.,
The Revelation).
5. Press
ENTER
to select it.
6. Highlight and select Questions.
7. Press and to move
through the question.
8. To view the answer, press
ANSW
(green).
9. Press
QUES
(red) or hold
✩
and press
DN
to go to the
next question.
Or hold
✩
and press
UP
to go to
a previous question.
10. Press
CLEAR
when done.
Answering Questions
Viewing a Random Question
Section
The book randomly picks a section and
always shows you the first question
for that section.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Press
QUES
(red).
To see where you are, press
?
✻
and then press . Press
BACK
to
return to the question. To learn
more, see “Where Am I?”.
3. To view the answer, press
ANSW
(green).
4. Press
QUES
(red) again to view
the next question in that
section.
Answering Questions
▲
➤Zooming Through Menus
To zoom to the top or bottom of a
menu, hold
CAP
and press or .
➤Typing Numbers
Instead of scrolling through num-
bered sections and subsections, you
can go directly to one by typing the
number that comes in front of it.
To type a number, hold
✩
and press
the top row of letter keys (Q-P).

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Finding Study Passages
The study passages from which the
questions come are shown before the
questions. You might want to read the
passages in your Bible before trying
to answer the questions. Or you can
just see how well you do on your own.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Select a Testament (e.g., Old).
3. Select a section (e.g., The
Poetical Books).
4. Select a book (e.g., 3. Prov-
erbs).
5. Select Study Passages.
This is the passage for the
following questions.
6. Press to go to the first
question.
Viewing Cross-References
Some questions have a related cross-
referenced question. You will see an
XREF symbol in the answer screen if
a question has a cross-reference.
1. When you come to an answer
with an , press
ENTER
to
start the highlight.
2. Press the arrow keys to
highlight the .
3. Press
ENTER
to go to its cross-
referenced question.
4. Press
ANSW
(green).
5. Press
BACK repeatedly until
you return to the original
question.

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Adding Notes Removing Notes
Use the List key to place notes as
bookmarks at questions you want to
mark. The section heading is the note
name.
1. Go to a Bible question.
2. Press
LIST
(blue).
3. Press
ENTER
to select Add note.
The marks your note.
4. Press
CLEAR
.
5. Press
LIST
(blue) to see your
notes list.
6. Press
CLEAR
when done.
Removing a note is as easy as adding
one. Here’s how.
1. Press
LIST
(blue).
2. Highlight the note you wish
to remove.
3. Press
ENTER
to go to the note.
4. Press
LIST
(blue).
5. Press
ENTER
to remove the
note.
6. Press
CLEAR
when done.