Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies

January 1978 5-a-day

Every sheet in January 1978

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

  1. 1st January 1978What is meant by a nuclear family?
  2. 2nd January 1978In what year was Laudato Si' published?
  3. 3rd January 1978According to Genesis 1:28, what authority did God give humans over animals?
  4. 4th January 1978Give one psychological explanation sceptics use to challenge visions as reliable evidence of God.
  5. 5th January 1978In which decade did the charismatic Christian phenomenon known as the Toronto Blessing begin?
  6. 6th January 1978What do believers in afterlife compensation hope will happen to suffering after death?
  7. 7th January 1978What historical conflict is commonly used as a case study of 'holy war'?
  8. 8th January 1978Why might a Muslim link justice (adl) to a desire for peace?
  9. 9th January 1978State one criticism of retribution as the sole aim of punishment.
  10. 10th January 1978Name one form of corporal punishment used historically in the UK.
  11. 11th January 1978Name the Act of Parliament, and the year it was passed, that lists the protected characteristics in UK law.
  12. 12th January 1978Name one piece of US legislation that followed from the civil rights movement King helped lead.
  13. 13th January 1978Give the technical term for a theory of atonement that sees Christ's obedience as reversing or 'undoing' Adam's disobedience.
  14. 14th January 1978According to Acts 1:10-11, what did the two men in white tell the disciples as Jesus ascended?
  15. 15th January 1978Give one factor that has contributed to falling attendance at traditional Sunday services in Britain.
  16. 16th January 1978Give one symbol associated with Pentecost and state what it represents.
  17. 17th January 1978According to 1 Corinthians 10:16, what does drinking the cup during Communion involve, in Paul's words?
  18. 18th January 1978Which two people are believed to have rebuilt the foundations of the Ka'bah, according to Qur'an 2:127?
  19. 19th January 1978What is the Arabic term for the angels who record human deeds, sometimes translated 'Noble Recorders'?
  20. 20th January 1978Give one reason the assassination of the third caliph, Uthman, is significant in the history of the Sunni-Shia split.
  21. 21st January 1978Give one Qur'an reference used to support keeping five separate daily prayer times.
  22. 22nd January 1978True or false: mainstream Muslim scholarship regards terrorism as a legitimate form of jihad.
  23. 23rd January 1978State one difference between cohabitation and a civil partnership in the UK.
  24. 24th January 1978Give one reason gender-based stereotypes can lead to unequal treatment at work.
  25. 25th January 1978According to Philippians 1:23, where does Paul say he desires to be after death?
  26. 26th January 1978Name the intermediate state between death and the Day of Judgement referred to in the Qur'an.
  27. 27th January 1978Give the Arabic term for belief in Allah's predetermined plan for events such as life and death.
  28. 28th January 1978In which of Aquinas's Five Ways does he argue that nothing can cause itself?
  29. 29th January 1978Which book of the Bible contains the verse advising 'train up a child in the way he should go'?
  30. 30th January 1978What does the abbreviation IDP stand for?
  31. 31st January 1978Suggest one non-religious factor that analysts argue contributes to why some people are drawn towards violent extremism.