Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies

July 1974 5-a-day

Every sheet in July 1974

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

  1. 1st July 1974What does the Arabic term 'adl' mean?
  2. 2nd July 1974What is the difference between individual deterrence and general deterrence?
  3. 3rd July 1974Give one argument in favour of corporal punishment that focuses on deterring future crime, rather than on retribution.
  4. 4th July 1974Give one example of indirect discrimination.
  5. 5th July 1974State one reason religious groups might find it hard to promote racial harmony.
  6. 6th July 1974Give the technical term for a theory of atonement that sees Christ's obedience as reversing or 'undoing' Adam's disobedience.
  7. 7th July 1974Which apostle preached the first recorded Christian sermon, on the day of Pentecost?
  8. 8th July 1974State one feature of worship in a house church.
  9. 9th July 1974Name the Christian festival that celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit to the disciples, 50 days after Easter.
  10. 10th July 1974According to 1 Corinthians 10:16, what does drinking the cup during Communion involve, in Paul's words?
  11. 11th July 1974Give one reason Ibrahim's role as 'an imam (leader) for the people' (Qur'an 2:124) is significant for Shi'a belief.
  12. 12th July 1974Give one Arabic term for angels.
  13. 13th July 1974Name the Umayyad caliph whose forces were responsible for the death of Husayn at Karbala.
  14. 14th July 1974Which month does Ashura fall in?
  15. 15th July 1974Besides armed struggle and inner spiritual struggle, name one other way jihad can be expressed according to broader Islamic teaching.
  16. 16th July 1974Give one reason, other than religious teaching, why unmarried cohabiting couples have historically had fewer legal protections than married couples.
  17. 17th July 1974According to 1 Corinthians 11:11-12, in what direction does dependence between men and women run?
  18. 18th July 1974Give one practice associated with Catholic belief in purgatory that most Protestant churches do not follow.
  19. 19th July 1974According to the Qur'an (99:7-8), what happens to even the smallest good or bad deed a person does?
  20. 20th July 1974Which two branches of Islam does this topic compare when looking at attitudes to euthanasia?
  21. 21st July 1974Which 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?
  22. 22nd July 1974Give one reason some people argue that faith imposed during upbringing is not the same as freely chosen, personal belief.
  23. 23rd July 1974Name the migration of the Prophet Muhammad and his early followers from Makkah to Madinah to escape persecution.
  24. 24th July 1974Name 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.
  25. 25th July 1974State one reason it can help a court to understand what has contributed to a person's offending before deciding a sentence.
  26. 26th July 1974Besides the victim and the offender, name one other group who can be affected by suffering linked to a crime and its punishment.
  27. 27th July 1974Which 1998 UK law makes rights under the European Convention on Human Rights enforceable in UK courts?
  28. 28th July 1974Give one example of an alternative to a high-cost lender that a church or faith group might support.
  29. 29th July 1974Give one word for the Christian belief that God is present and active within creation and human life, as opposed to being distant and uninvolved.
  30. 30th July 1974Which two New Testament books are most often set against each other in the Christian debate about faith and works?
  31. 31st July 1974What does Job's response in Job 42:1-6, after God speaks from the whirlwind, show about his attitude?