Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies

December 1955 5-a-day

Every sheet in December 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 December 1955Which just war criterion is concerned with civilians not being deliberately targeted in a war?
  2. 2nd December 1955Name one reason, other than justice, why religious believers might seek peace.
  3. 3rd December 1955According to a Humanist, outcomes-based view of punishment, what should justify a punishment?
  4. 4th December 1955Complete the quotation: 'what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and ______' (Micah 6:8).
  5. 5th December 1955State one difference between prejudice and discrimination.
  6. 6th December 1955Give one method Martin Luther King used to campaign for civil rights.
  7. 7th December 1955Give the technical term for a theory of atonement that sees Christ's obedience as reversing or 'undoing' Adam's disobedience.
  8. 8th December 1955On which Jewish festival, fifty days after Passover, does Acts 2 record the Holy Spirit coming upon the disciples?
  9. 9th December 1955Name the movement that describes informal, often community-based forms of church, such as 'messy church', designed to reach people outside traditional Sunday services.
  10. 10th December 1955State one thing Christians traditionally do during Lent.
  11. 11th December 1955According to 1 Corinthians 10:16, what does drinking the cup during Communion involve, in Paul's words?
  12. 12th December 1955What role, according to Qur'an 2:30, does Allah tell the angels he is placing Adam on earth to fulfil?
  13. 13th December 1955What are jinn believed to be created from, in contrast to angels?
  14. 14th December 1955Give the term used for these first four Sunni caliphs, meaning 'rightly guided'.
  15. 15th December 1955State one practical effect of many Shia Muslims combining prayers into three periods.
  16. 16th December 1955Which of the two forms of jihad applies to every Muslim, every day, without exception?
  17. 17th December 1955Name the Gospel in which Jesus's teaching on lust and adultery 'in the heart' is found.
  18. 18th December 1955Give one branch of Judaism that ordains women as rabbis.
  19. 19th December 1955What is purgatory, according to Catholic teaching?
  20. 20th December 1955Which denomination of Christianity most commonly teaches belief in purgatory?
  21. 21st December 1955Give the Arabic term for the belief that life is a trust from Allah that must be protected.
  22. 22nd December 1955In which of his works did Aquinas set out the Five Ways?
  23. 23rd December 1955State one reason a faith school might reinforce belief in God more than a non-faith school.
  24. 24th December 1955What is the key difference between a refugee and an internally displaced person?
  25. 25th December 1955State one just war criterion, other than discrimination, that terrorism typically fails to meet.
  26. 26th December 1955Give one type of crime that involves taking someone else's property without permission.
  27. 27th December 1955Give one reason why a community sentence might cause less suffering to an offender's family than a prison sentence.
  28. 28th December 1955Give one example of an absolute right that can never lawfully be restricted.
  29. 29th December 1955State one non-financial cost of poverty that religious charities often highlight.
  30. 30th December 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.
  31. 31st December 1955Give one title the New Testament gives to Jesus that describes his role in achieving salvation.