Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies

April 1957 5-a-day

Every sheet in April 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 April 1957According to the Qur'an (99:7-8), what happens to even the smallest good or bad deed a person does?
  2. 2nd April 1957Which two branches of Islam does this topic compare when looking at attitudes to euthanasia?
  3. 3rd April 1957Which 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?
  4. 4th April 1957Give one reason some people argue that faith imposed during upbringing is not the same as freely chosen, personal belief.
  5. 5th April 1957Name the migration of the Prophet Muhammad and his early followers from Makkah to Madinah to escape persecution.
  6. 6th April 1957Name 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.
  7. 7th April 1957State one reason it can help a court to understand what has contributed to a person's offending before deciding a sentence.
  8. 8th April 1957Besides the victim and the offender, name one other group who can be affected by suffering linked to a crime and its punishment.
  9. 9th April 1957Which 1998 UK law makes rights under the European Convention on Human Rights enforceable in UK courts?
  10. 10th April 1957Give one example of an alternative to a high-cost lender that a church or faith group might support.
  11. 11th April 1957Give one word for the Christian belief that God is present and active within creation and human life, as opposed to being distant and uninvolved.
  12. 12th April 1957Which two New Testament books are most often set against each other in the Christian debate about faith and works?
  13. 13th April 1957What does Job's response in Job 42:1-6, after God speaks from the whirlwind, show about his attitude?
  14. 14th April 1957Give one difference between an 'open table' Communion and a 'closed' Communion.
  15. 15th April 1957According to 1 Corinthians 12:12, what does Paul compare the Church to?
  16. 16th April 1957What is the Arabic term often translated as 'the signs of the Hour'?
  17. 17th April 1957In roughly what period of Muhammad's life, in relation to the Hijrah, is the Night Journey traditionally placed?
  18. 18th April 1957State one difference between a Nabi and a Rasul.
  19. 19th April 1957What is umrah?
  20. 20th April 1957What is the Arabic term for the call to prayer announced from the mosque?
  21. 21st April 1957Name the pillar of Islam that most closely parallels khums in being an obligatory, percentage-based payment.
  22. 22nd April 1957Give one practical issue a religious community might need to decide when a divorced member wishes to remarry.
  23. 23rd April 1957What is meant by a wedding vow?
  24. 24th April 1957Which book of the Bible contains the account of God forming the first human from the dust of the ground?
  25. 25th April 1957Define the term stewardship.
  26. 26th April 1957Which of Joseph's Old Testament dreams anger his brothers, according to Genesis 37:5-11?
  27. 27th April 1957Name the philosopher who developed the modern version of the free will defence.
  28. 28th April 1957Give one non-religious cause of war.
  29. 29th April 1957Identify the religious group named in this topic that has a long historical tradition of pacifism.
  30. 30th April 1957Why might faith motivate someone to volunteer for a peace organisation, rather than just believing peace is a good idea?