Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies

December 1980 5-a-day

Every sheet in December 1980

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

  1. 1st December 1980Give the technical term for a theory of atonement that sees Christ's obedience as reversing or 'undoing' Adam's disobedience.
  2. 2nd December 1980On which Jewish festival, fifty days after Passover, does Acts 2 record the Holy Spirit coming upon the disciples?
  3. 3rd December 1980Name the movement that describes informal, often community-based forms of church, such as 'messy church', designed to reach people outside traditional Sunday services.
  4. 4th December 1980State one thing Christians traditionally do during Lent.
  5. 5th December 1980According to 1 Corinthians 10:16, what does drinking the cup during Communion involve, in Paul's words?
  6. 6th December 1980What role, according to Qur'an 2:30, does Allah tell the angels he is placing Adam on earth to fulfil?
  7. 7th December 1980What are jinn believed to be created from, in contrast to angels?
  8. 8th December 1980Give the term used for these first four Sunni caliphs, meaning 'rightly guided'.
  9. 9th December 1980State one practical effect of many Shia Muslims combining prayers into three periods.
  10. 10th December 1980Which of the two forms of jihad applies to every Muslim, every day, without exception?
  11. 11th December 1980Name the Gospel in which Jesus's teaching on lust and adultery 'in the heart' is found.
  12. 12th December 1980Give one branch of Judaism that ordains women as rabbis.
  13. 13th December 1980What is purgatory, according to Catholic teaching?
  14. 14th December 1980Which denomination of Christianity most commonly teaches belief in purgatory?
  15. 15th December 1980Give the Arabic term for the belief that life is a trust from Allah that must be protected.
  16. 16th December 1980In which of his works did Aquinas set out the Five Ways?
  17. 17th December 1980State one reason a faith school might reinforce belief in God more than a non-faith school.
  18. 18th December 1980What is the key difference between a refugee and an internally displaced person?
  19. 19th December 1980State one just war criterion, other than discrimination, that terrorism typically fails to meet.
  20. 20th December 1980Give one type of crime that involves taking someone else's property without permission.
  21. 21st December 1980Give one reason why a community sentence might cause less suffering to an offender's family than a prison sentence.
  22. 22nd December 1980Give one example of an absolute right that can never lawfully be restricted.
  23. 23rd December 1980State one non-financial cost of poverty that religious charities often highlight.
  24. 24th December 1980Give one word for the Christian belief that God is present and active within creation and human life, as opposed to being distant and uninvolved.
  25. 25th December 1980Give one title the New Testament gives to Jesus that describes his role in achieving salvation.
  26. 26th December 1980What wrongly do Job's friends assume is the cause of his suffering?
  27. 27th December 1980State who usually leads a Confirmation service in the Anglican Church.
  28. 28th December 1980According to 1 Corinthians 12:12, what does Paul compare the Church to?
  29. 29th December 1980Give one reason minor signs are described as 'minor' rather than 'major'.
  30. 30th December 1980What title is traditionally given to Abu Bakr, partly because of his response to the Night Journey?
  31. 31st December 1980Give the Arabic term for a miracle Allah grants a prophet as a sign of their message.