Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies

August 1984 5-a-day

Every sheet in August 1984

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

  1. 1st August 1984Define the term Nabi.
  2. 2nd August 1984According to mainstream Muslim teaching, is a person's effort to seek a livelihood still required if Allah has already decreed their provision?
  3. 3rd August 1984According to Twelver Shia belief, from whose family were the Imams descended?
  4. 4th August 1984Is reciting the words of the Shahadah alone enough to make someone a Muslim, or is something more required?
  5. 5th August 1984State the Islamic collection in which the hadith about the Prophet fasting on Ashura is recorded.
  6. 6th August 1984A couple using natural family planning identifies 8 fertile days in a 28-day cycle. Calculate the number of non-fertile days in that cycle.
  7. 7th August 1984Give one reason an extended family might find it easier than a nuclear family to support a member going through a health crisis.
  8. 8th August 1984Give two foods listed as forbidden (haram) in Qur'an 5:3.
  9. 9th August 1984Name one type of specialist care that aims to relieve pain and symptoms for a person with a terminal illness, as an alternative to euthanasia.
  10. 10th August 1984What is the common name for the argument that nature's order and apparent purpose point to a designer?
  11. 11th August 1984Besides Lourdes in France, name another well-known site associated with claimed Catholic Marian miracles.
  12. 12th August 1984What term describes the view that God used the process of evolution as his method of creating life?
  13. 13th August 1984State one practical action a religious community might take to support reconciliation after conflict.
  14. 14th August 1984According to the Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37), who counts as a person's 'neighbour'?
  15. 15th August 1984According to Matthew 18:22, how many times does Jesus tell Peter to forgive someone?
  16. 16th August 1984In what year was the death penalty abolished in the UK for all remaining offences?
  17. 17th August 1984Give one difference between Fair Trade certification and the wider Trade Justice Movement.
  18. 18th August 1984Give one example of a fundraising method used by faith communities, other than a collection plate or box.
  19. 19th August 1984Give the name for the Christian interpretation of Genesis 1 which reads each 'day' as a long period of time rather than a literal 24-hour day.
  20. 20th August 1984Name the New Testament letter that states 'in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form'.
  21. 21st August 1984Name the Anglican service book, first compiled in 1549 and revised in 1662, that provides set liturgy for worship.
  22. 22nd August 1984State one reason why some Christians use a physical aid, such as a prayer rope or beads, when praying.
  23. 23rd August 1984What is another common name for believers' baptism, reflecting that it requires personal belief first?
  24. 24th August 1984Give one Qur'anic reference commonly used to support belief in Al-Mizan.
  25. 25th August 1984Give one belief that shows transcendence and immanence are not really contradictory in Muslim theology.
  26. 26th August 1984Give one reason a Muslim might consult a Tafsir when studying the Qur'an.
  27. 27th August 1984Name the charitable payment traditionally given before the Eid al-Fitr prayer, at the end of Ramadan.
  28. 28th August 1984Roughly how many pilgrims perform Hajj in a typical year?
  29. 29th August 1984Name the New Testament letter, other than 1 Corinthians, that contains Paul's teaching to 'abstain from sexual immorality'.
  30. 30th August 1984What is meant by contraception?
  31. 31st August 1984What is meant by the steady state theory?