Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies
August 1985 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1985
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1985In restorative justice, what name is given to a meeting where the offender, the victim and community representatives discuss the harm caused and how to repair it?
- 2nd August 1985State one reason why a wrongful execution is considered worse than a wrongful prison sentence.
- 3rd August 1985Complete the quotation: 'Do not defraud or rob your neighbour. Do not hold back ______' (Leviticus 19:13).
- 4th August 1985Name the specific percentage rate at which Zakah is normally calculated.
- 5th August 1985Give 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.
- 6th August 1985At which Church council, in 431 AD, was the title Theotokos formally affirmed for Mary?
- 7th August 1985In which Gospel do the disciples ask Jesus, 'Lord, teach us to pray'?
- 8th August 1985State what is meant by contemplative prayer.
- 9th August 1985What is another common name for believers' baptism, reflecting that it requires personal belief first?
- 10th August 1985Name the two angels believed to question the deceased in the grave.
- 11th August 1985Which chapter (surah) of the Qur'an contains the verse describing Allah as 'the Creator, the Inventor, the Fashioner'?
- 12th August 1985Approximately how many years passed between the first and last revelations of the Qur'an to Muhammad?
- 13th August 1985Give one reason Muslims are encouraged to seek Laylat al-Qadr across several nights rather than on one confirmed date.
- 14th August 1985In which month of the Islamic calendar does Hajj take place?
- 15th August 1985State one way media or celebrity culture might reduce the stigma attached to sex before marriage.
- 16th August 1985What is meant by adoption?
- 17th August 1985Give one reason the Big Bang theory is described as a scientific theory rather than a religious belief.
- 18th August 1985Which psalm is often used to argue that God is involved in forming a person before birth?
- 19th August 1985Name the Christian theologian associated with developing situation ethics.
- 20th August 1985What is the difference between atheism and secularism?
- 21st August 1985Name one natural theology argument that is sometimes described as a form of general revelation.
- 22nd August 1985What does jus in bello mean?
- 23rd August 1985According to Genesis 1:27, why do many Christians believe every human life is sacred?
- 24th August 1985What does the theory of nuclear deterrence claim?
- 25th August 1985Explain why a victim who chooses not to forgive an offender is not automatically acting unfairly.
- 26th August 1985In Islam, who is believed to tempt humans towards wrongdoing?
- 27th August 1985Give one structural cause of poverty.
- 28th August 1985Give one reason why owing debt can trap a developing country in poverty.
- 29th August 1985State which numbered chapter of Genesis contains the second, more detailed account of the creation of Adam and Eve.
- 30th August 1985Which Christian tradition, associated with the reformer John Calvin, places strong emphasis on predestination and God's sovereign choice in salvation?
- 31st August 1985State one way a persecuted Christian community might continue to worship safely.