Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies

April 1955 5-a-day

Every sheet in April 1955

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st April 1955What is meant by Sawm?
  2. 2nd April 1955What is the Shi'a-specific religious payment, additional to zakah, called?
  3. 3rd April 1955Give two features that make dua different from the fixed structure of Salah.
  4. 4th April 1955In what year did same-sex couples first legally marry in England and Wales?
  5. 5th April 1955State one reason cohabitation has become more common in the UK.
  6. 6th April 1955In what year was Laudato Si' published?
  7. 7th April 1955What term describes giving less moral weight to an animal's suffering purely because it is not human?
  8. 8th April 1955Give one reason a believer might treat a vision as credible despite it not being independently verifiable.
  9. 9th April 1955In which book of the New Testament is Paul's (then Saul's) conversion on the road to Damascus described?
  10. 10th April 1955According to the free will defence, who is responsible for moral evil?
  11. 11th April 1955Name the secular philosopher who developed a rights-based, non-religious version of just war theory.
  12. 12th April 1955What does the Arabic term 'adl' mean?
  13. 13th April 1955What is the difference between individual deterrence and general deterrence?
  14. 14th April 1955Give one argument in favour of corporal punishment that focuses on deterring future crime, rather than on retribution.
  15. 15th April 1955Give one example of indirect discrimination.
  16. 16th April 1955State one reason religious groups might find it hard to promote racial harmony.
  17. 17th April 1955Give the technical term for a theory of atonement that sees Christ's obedience as reversing or 'undoing' Adam's disobedience.
  18. 18th April 1955Which apostle preached the first recorded Christian sermon, on the day of Pentecost?
  19. 19th April 1955State one feature of worship in a house church.
  20. 20th April 1955Name the Christian festival that celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit to the disciples, 50 days after Easter.
  21. 21st April 1955According to 1 Corinthians 10:16, what does drinking the cup during Communion involve, in Paul's words?
  22. 22nd April 1955Give one reason Ibrahim's role as 'an imam (leader) for the people' (Qur'an 2:124) is significant for Shi'a belief.
  23. 23rd April 1955Give one Arabic term for angels.
  24. 24th April 1955Name the Umayyad caliph whose forces were responsible for the death of Husayn at Karbala.
  25. 25th April 1955Which month does Ashura fall in?
  26. 26th April 1955Besides armed struggle and inner spiritual struggle, name one other way jihad can be expressed according to broader Islamic teaching.
  27. 27th April 1955Give one reason, other than religious teaching, why unmarried cohabiting couples have historically had fewer legal protections than married couples.
  28. 28th April 1955According to 1 Corinthians 11:11-12, in what direction does dependence between men and women run?
  29. 29th April 1955Give one practice associated with Catholic belief in purgatory that most Protestant churches do not follow.
  30. 30th April 1955According to the Qur'an (99:7-8), what happens to even the smallest good or bad deed a person does?