Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies

May 1955 5-a-day

Every sheet in May 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 May 1955Which two branches of Islam does this topic compare when looking at attitudes to euthanasia?
  2. 2nd May 1955Which two philosophers are most associated with the objection that the universe as a whole may not need a cause, even though things within it do?
  3. 3rd May 1955Give one reason some people argue that faith imposed during upbringing is not the same as freely chosen, personal belief.
  4. 4th May 1955Name the migration of the Prophet Muhammad and his early followers from Makkah to Madinah to escape persecution.
  5. 5th May 1955Name the idea, based on a well-known hadith, used to show that the internal struggle against one's own faults is considered greater than armed struggle.
  6. 6th May 1955State one reason it can help a court to understand what has contributed to a person's offending before deciding a sentence.
  7. 7th May 1955Besides the victim and the offender, name one other group who can be affected by suffering linked to a crime and its punishment.
  8. 8th May 1955Which 1998 UK law makes rights under the European Convention on Human Rights enforceable in UK courts?
  9. 9th May 1955Give one example of an alternative to a high-cost lender that a church or faith group might support.
  10. 10th May 1955Give one word for the Christian belief that God is present and active within creation and human life, as opposed to being distant and uninvolved.
  11. 11th May 1955Which two New Testament books are most often set against each other in the Christian debate about faith and works?
  12. 12th May 1955What does Job's response in Job 42:1-6, after God speaks from the whirlwind, show about his attitude?
  13. 13th May 1955Give one difference between an 'open table' Communion and a 'closed' Communion.
  14. 14th May 1955According to 1 Corinthians 12:12, what does Paul compare the Church to?
  15. 15th May 1955What is the Arabic term often translated as 'the signs of the Hour'?
  16. 16th May 1955In roughly what period of Muhammad's life, in relation to the Hijrah, is the Night Journey traditionally placed?
  17. 17th May 1955State one difference between a Nabi and a Rasul.
  18. 18th May 1955What is umrah?
  19. 19th May 1955What is the Arabic term for the call to prayer announced from the mosque?
  20. 20th May 1955Name the pillar of Islam that most closely parallels khums in being an obligatory, percentage-based payment.
  21. 21st May 1955Give one practical issue a religious community might need to decide when a divorced member wishes to remarry.
  22. 22nd May 1955What is meant by a wedding vow?
  23. 23rd May 1955Which book of the Bible contains the account of God forming the first human from the dust of the ground?
  24. 24th May 1955Define the term stewardship.
  25. 25th May 1955Which of Joseph's Old Testament dreams anger his brothers, according to Genesis 37:5-11?
  26. 26th May 1955Name the philosopher who developed the modern version of the free will defence.
  27. 27th May 1955Give one non-religious cause of war.
  28. 28th May 1955Identify the religious group named in this topic that has a long historical tradition of pacifism.
  29. 29th May 1955Why might faith motivate someone to volunteer for a peace organisation, rather than just believing peace is a good idea?
  30. 30th May 1955Give one requirement that can be attached to a community sentence.
  31. 31st May 1955What Arabic term is often used for the idea of justice that Shariah aims to establish?