Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies

March 1957 5-a-day

Every sheet in March 1957

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

  1. 1st March 1957Give the Qur'anic reference commonly cited for belief that Allah has protected the Qur'an from corruption.
  2. 2nd March 1957Give the Qur'anic image used to describe the moment that marks the start of the Day of Judgement.
  3. 3rd March 1957What is meant by Sawm?
  4. 4th March 1957What is the Shi'a-specific religious payment, additional to zakah, called?
  5. 5th March 1957Give two features that make dua different from the fixed structure of Salah.
  6. 6th March 1957In what year did same-sex couples first legally marry in England and Wales?
  7. 7th March 1957State one reason cohabitation has become more common in the UK.
  8. 8th March 1957In what year was Laudato Si' published?
  9. 9th March 1957What term describes giving less moral weight to an animal's suffering purely because it is not human?
  10. 10th March 1957Give one reason a believer might treat a vision as credible despite it not being independently verifiable.
  11. 11th March 1957In which book of the New Testament is Paul's (then Saul's) conversion on the road to Damascus described?
  12. 12th March 1957According to the free will defence, who is responsible for moral evil?
  13. 13th March 1957Name the secular philosopher who developed a rights-based, non-religious version of just war theory.
  14. 14th March 1957What does the Arabic term 'adl' mean?
  15. 15th March 1957What is the difference between individual deterrence and general deterrence?
  16. 16th March 1957Give one argument in favour of corporal punishment that focuses on deterring future crime, rather than on retribution.
  17. 17th March 1957Give one example of indirect discrimination.
  18. 18th March 1957State one reason religious groups might find it hard to promote racial harmony.
  19. 19th March 1957Give the technical term for a theory of atonement that sees Christ's obedience as reversing or 'undoing' Adam's disobedience.
  20. 20th March 1957Which apostle preached the first recorded Christian sermon, on the day of Pentecost?
  21. 21st March 1957State one feature of worship in a house church.
  22. 22nd March 1957Name the Christian festival that celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit to the disciples, 50 days after Easter.
  23. 23rd March 1957According to 1 Corinthians 10:16, what does drinking the cup during Communion involve, in Paul's words?
  24. 24th March 1957Give one reason Ibrahim's role as 'an imam (leader) for the people' (Qur'an 2:124) is significant for Shi'a belief.
  25. 25th March 1957Give one Arabic term for angels.
  26. 26th March 1957Name the Umayyad caliph whose forces were responsible for the death of Husayn at Karbala.
  27. 27th March 1957Which month does Ashura fall in?
  28. 28th March 1957Besides armed struggle and inner spiritual struggle, name one other way jihad can be expressed according to broader Islamic teaching.
  29. 29th March 1957Give one reason, other than religious teaching, why unmarried cohabiting couples have historically had fewer legal protections than married couples.
  30. 30th March 1957According to 1 Corinthians 11:11-12, in what direction does dependence between men and women run?
  31. 31st March 1957Give one practice associated with Catholic belief in purgatory that most Protestant churches do not follow.