Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies

March 1987 5-a-day

Every sheet in March 1987

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

  1. 1st March 1987What is the Islamic term for the duty to maintain ties of kinship with relatives?
  2. 2nd March 1987Which Christian tradition requires strict fasting from meat and dairy on many days of the year, including Lent?
  3. 3rd March 1987Give one reason a person might travel abroad in connection with the euthanasia debate.
  4. 4th March 1987In which century did Thomas Aquinas write the Five Ways?
  5. 5th March 1987What is the name of the biblical account, found in John chapter 2, in which Jesus is said to have changed water into wine?
  6. 6th March 1987Which verse is often used by Christians who see Genesis and the Big Bang theory as compatible?
  7. 7th March 1987What condition did perpetrators usually have to meet to receive amnesty from the TRC?
  8. 8th March 1987Give one reason large-scale humanitarian aid after a conflict often needs government, not only individual, involvement.
  9. 9th March 1987What is restorative justice?
  10. 10th March 1987Give one argument used by supporters of the death penalty that does not depend on any religious belief.
  11. 11th March 1987State one limitation of Fair Trade certification as a solution to unfair trade.
  12. 12th March 1987State one difference between short-term charitable relief and long-term development work.
  13. 13th March 1987Give 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.
  14. 14th March 1987What title does John's Gospel use for Jesus before his human birth, in the phrase 'the Word was with God'?
  15. 15th March 1987Give one reason a Christian might choose to worship using set, written prayers rather than their own spontaneous words.
  16. 16th March 1987Give one occasion when a Christian might use intercessory prayer.
  17. 17th March 1987What is another common name for believers' baptism, reflecting that it requires personal belief first?
  18. 18th March 1987What does As-Sirat mean?
  19. 19th March 1987Name one of Allah's Ninety-Nine Names that means 'the Judge'.
  20. 20th March 1987Give the term for the scholarly explanation and interpretation of the Qur'an's meaning.
  21. 21st March 1987Give one difference between Zakat al-Fitr and the year-round obligation of Zakah.
  22. 22nd March 1987What does the hadith saying 'Hajj is Arafat' teach about the importance of standing at Arafat?
  23. 23rd March 1987Name a UK organisation that campaigns for decisions about relationships to be based on personal conscience rather than religious rules.
  24. 24th March 1987What is meant by cohabitation?
  25. 25th March 1987What is meant by creation 'ex nihilo'?
  26. 26th March 1987Which Act of Parliament sets out the law on abortion in England, Scotland and Wales?
  27. 27th March 1987What ethical approach do some liberal Protestants use to justify abortion in specific circumstances?
  28. 28th March 1987Give the difference between strong (positive) atheism and weak (negative) atheism.
  29. 29th March 1987Which type of vision, in the Augustinian classification, is considered to involve no physical or imagined image at all?
  30. 30th March 1987What does the principle of discrimination require in war?
  31. 31st March 1987Suggest one reason a Humanist might oppose weapons of mass destruction without appealing to any religious teaching.