Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies
May 1978 5-a-day
Every sheet in May 1978
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1978Give one reason a believer might treat a vision as credible despite it not being independently verifiable.
- 2nd May 1978In which book of the New Testament is Paul's (then Saul's) conversion on the road to Damascus described?
- 3rd May 1978According to the free will defence, who is responsible for moral evil?
- 4th May 1978Name the secular philosopher who developed a rights-based, non-religious version of just war theory.
- 5th May 1978What does the Arabic term 'adl' mean?
- 6th May 1978What is the difference between individual deterrence and general deterrence?
- 7th May 1978Give one argument in favour of corporal punishment that focuses on deterring future crime, rather than on retribution.
- 8th May 1978Give one example of indirect discrimination.
- 9th May 1978State one reason religious groups might find it hard to promote racial harmony.
- 10th May 1978Give the technical term for a theory of atonement that sees Christ's obedience as reversing or 'undoing' Adam's disobedience.
- 11th May 1978Which apostle preached the first recorded Christian sermon, on the day of Pentecost?
- 12th May 1978State one feature of worship in a house church.
- 13th May 1978Name the Christian festival that celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit to the disciples, 50 days after Easter.
- 14th May 1978According to 1 Corinthians 10:16, what does drinking the cup during Communion involve, in Paul's words?
- 15th May 1978Give one reason Ibrahim's role as 'an imam (leader) for the people' (Qur'an 2:124) is significant for Shi'a belief.
- 16th May 1978Give one Arabic term for angels.
- 17th May 1978Name the Umayyad caliph whose forces were responsible for the death of Husayn at Karbala.
- 18th May 1978Which month does Ashura fall in?
- 19th May 1978Besides armed struggle and inner spiritual struggle, name one other way jihad can be expressed according to broader Islamic teaching.
- 20th May 1978Give one reason, other than religious teaching, why unmarried cohabiting couples have historically had fewer legal protections than married couples.
- 21st May 1978According to 1 Corinthians 11:11-12, in what direction does dependence between men and women run?
- 22nd May 1978Give one practice associated with Catholic belief in purgatory that most Protestant churches do not follow.
- 23rd May 1978According to the Qur'an (99:7-8), what happens to even the smallest good or bad deed a person does?
- 24th May 1978Which two branches of Islam does this topic compare when looking at attitudes to euthanasia?
- 25th May 1978Which 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?
- 26th May 1978Give one reason some people argue that faith imposed during upbringing is not the same as freely chosen, personal belief.
- 27th May 1978Name the migration of the Prophet Muhammad and his early followers from Makkah to Madinah to escape persecution.
- 28th May 1978Name 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.
- 29th May 1978State one reason it can help a court to understand what has contributed to a person's offending before deciding a sentence.
- 30th May 1978Besides the victim and the offender, name one other group who can be affected by suffering linked to a crime and its punishment.
- 31st May 1978Which 1998 UK law makes rights under the European Convention on Human Rights enforceable in UK courts?