Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies

August 1970 5-a-day

Every sheet in August 1970

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

  1. 1st August 1970What term is used for the sense of insight or truth that William James said often accompanies a religious experience?
  2. 2nd August 1970State one action that would breach the principle of proportionality when handling a captured, unarmed soldier.
  3. 3rd August 1970Name the three main categories of weapon of mass destruction.
  4. 4th August 1970Name one Christian denomination or group that actively campaigns for unilateral nuclear disarmament.
  5. 5th August 1970According to Qur'an 64:14, what does Allah do for those who choose to pardon and overlook a wrong?
  6. 6th August 1970What is the Christian term for turning back to God and expressing sorrow for sin?
  7. 7th August 1970Give one way financial pressure linked to poverty can affect someone emotionally.
  8. 8th August 1970What term describes lacking enough resources to meet basic needs such as food, clean water and shelter?
  9. 9th August 1970State which numbered chapter of Genesis contains the second, more detailed account of the creation of Adam and Eve.
  10. 10th August 1970Give one Bible reference some Christians use to argue that God chooses who will be saved before they are born.
  11. 11th August 1970State one difference between discrimination and persecution.
  12. 12th August 1970Give one example of a media method a church might use to spread the Christian message today.
  13. 13th August 1970What does Asma-ul-Husna mean in English?
  14. 14th August 1970Give the Qur'anic reference commonly cited for belief that Allah has protected the Qur'an from corruption.
  15. 15th August 1970Give the Qur'anic image used to describe the moment that marks the start of the Day of Judgement.
  16. 16th August 1970What is meant by Sawm?
  17. 17th August 1970What is the Shi'a-specific religious payment, additional to zakah, called?
  18. 18th August 1970Give two features that make dua different from the fixed structure of Salah.
  19. 19th August 1970In what year did same-sex couples first legally marry in England and Wales?
  20. 20th August 1970State one reason cohabitation has become more common in the UK.
  21. 21st August 1970In what year was Laudato Si' published?
  22. 22nd August 1970What term describes giving less moral weight to an animal's suffering purely because it is not human?
  23. 23rd August 1970Give one reason a believer might treat a vision as credible despite it not being independently verifiable.
  24. 24th August 1970In which book of the New Testament is Paul's (then Saul's) conversion on the road to Damascus described?
  25. 25th August 1970According to the free will defence, who is responsible for moral evil?
  26. 26th August 1970Name the secular philosopher who developed a rights-based, non-religious version of just war theory.
  27. 27th August 1970What does the Arabic term 'adl' mean?
  28. 28th August 1970What is the difference between individual deterrence and general deterrence?
  29. 29th August 1970Give one argument in favour of corporal punishment that focuses on deterring future crime, rather than on retribution.
  30. 30th August 1970Give one example of indirect discrimination.
  31. 31st August 1970State one reason religious groups might find it hard to promote racial harmony.