Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies

March 1959 5-a-day

Every sheet in March 1959

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 1959Give one reason, other than religious teaching, why unmarried cohabiting couples have historically had fewer legal protections than married couples.
  2. 2nd March 1959According to 1 Corinthians 11:11-12, in what direction does dependence between men and women run?
  3. 3rd March 1959Give one practice associated with Catholic belief in purgatory that most Protestant churches do not follow.
  4. 4th March 1959According to the Qur'an (99:7-8), what happens to even the smallest good or bad deed a person does?
  5. 5th March 1959Which two branches of Islam does this topic compare when looking at attitudes to euthanasia?
  6. 6th March 1959Which 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?
  7. 7th March 1959Give one reason some people argue that faith imposed during upbringing is not the same as freely chosen, personal belief.
  8. 8th March 1959Name the migration of the Prophet Muhammad and his early followers from Makkah to Madinah to escape persecution.
  9. 9th March 1959Name 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.
  10. 10th March 1959State one reason it can help a court to understand what has contributed to a person's offending before deciding a sentence.
  11. 11th March 1959Besides the victim and the offender, name one other group who can be affected by suffering linked to a crime and its punishment.
  12. 12th March 1959Which 1998 UK law makes rights under the European Convention on Human Rights enforceable in UK courts?
  13. 13th March 1959Give one example of an alternative to a high-cost lender that a church or faith group might support.
  14. 14th March 1959Give one word for the Christian belief that God is present and active within creation and human life, as opposed to being distant and uninvolved.
  15. 15th March 1959Which two New Testament books are most often set against each other in the Christian debate about faith and works?
  16. 16th March 1959What does Job's response in Job 42:1-6, after God speaks from the whirlwind, show about his attitude?
  17. 17th March 1959Give one difference between an 'open table' Communion and a 'closed' Communion.
  18. 18th March 1959According to 1 Corinthians 12:12, what does Paul compare the Church to?
  19. 19th March 1959What is the Arabic term often translated as 'the signs of the Hour'?
  20. 20th March 1959In roughly what period of Muhammad's life, in relation to the Hijrah, is the Night Journey traditionally placed?
  21. 21st March 1959State one difference between a Nabi and a Rasul.
  22. 22nd March 1959What is umrah?
  23. 23rd March 1959What is the Arabic term for the call to prayer announced from the mosque?
  24. 24th March 1959Name the pillar of Islam that most closely parallels khums in being an obligatory, percentage-based payment.
  25. 25th March 1959Give one practical issue a religious community might need to decide when a divorced member wishes to remarry.
  26. 26th March 1959What is meant by a wedding vow?
  27. 27th March 1959Which book of the Bible contains the account of God forming the first human from the dust of the ground?
  28. 28th March 1959Define the term stewardship.
  29. 29th March 1959Which of Joseph's Old Testament dreams anger his brothers, according to Genesis 37:5-11?
  30. 30th March 1959Name the philosopher who developed the modern version of the free will defence.
  31. 31st March 1959Give one non-religious cause of war.