Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies
April 1980 5-a-day
Every sheet in April 1980
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 1980What term describes giving less moral weight to an animal's suffering purely because it is not human?
- 2nd April 1980Give one reason a believer might treat a vision as credible despite it not being independently verifiable.
- 3rd April 1980In which book of the New Testament is Paul's (then Saul's) conversion on the road to Damascus described?
- 4th April 1980According to the free will defence, who is responsible for moral evil?
- 5th April 1980Name the secular philosopher who developed a rights-based, non-religious version of just war theory.
- 6th April 1980What does the Arabic term 'adl' mean?
- 7th April 1980What is the difference between individual deterrence and general deterrence?
- 8th April 1980Give one argument in favour of corporal punishment that focuses on deterring future crime, rather than on retribution.
- 9th April 1980Give one example of indirect discrimination.
- 10th April 1980State one reason religious groups might find it hard to promote racial harmony.
- 11th April 1980Give the technical term for a theory of atonement that sees Christ's obedience as reversing or 'undoing' Adam's disobedience.
- 12th April 1980Which apostle preached the first recorded Christian sermon, on the day of Pentecost?
- 13th April 1980State one feature of worship in a house church.
- 14th April 1980Name the Christian festival that celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit to the disciples, 50 days after Easter.
- 15th April 1980According to 1 Corinthians 10:16, what does drinking the cup during Communion involve, in Paul's words?
- 16th April 1980Give one reason Ibrahim's role as 'an imam (leader) for the people' (Qur'an 2:124) is significant for Shi'a belief.
- 17th April 1980Give one Arabic term for angels.
- 18th April 1980Name the Umayyad caliph whose forces were responsible for the death of Husayn at Karbala.
- 19th April 1980Which month does Ashura fall in?
- 20th April 1980Besides armed struggle and inner spiritual struggle, name one other way jihad can be expressed according to broader Islamic teaching.
- 21st April 1980Give one reason, other than religious teaching, why unmarried cohabiting couples have historically had fewer legal protections than married couples.
- 22nd April 1980According to 1 Corinthians 11:11-12, in what direction does dependence between men and women run?
- 23rd April 1980Give one practice associated with Catholic belief in purgatory that most Protestant churches do not follow.
- 24th April 1980According to the Qur'an (99:7-8), what happens to even the smallest good or bad deed a person does?
- 25th April 1980Which two branches of Islam does this topic compare when looking at attitudes to euthanasia?
- 26th April 1980Which 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?
- 27th April 1980Give one reason some people argue that faith imposed during upbringing is not the same as freely chosen, personal belief.
- 28th April 1980Name the migration of the Prophet Muhammad and his early followers from Makkah to Madinah to escape persecution.
- 29th April 1980Name 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.
- 30th April 1980State one reason it can help a court to understand what has contributed to a person's offending before deciding a sentence.