Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies

January 1988 5-a-day

Every sheet in January 1988

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

  1. 1st January 1988According to the Qur'an (99:7-8), what happens to even the smallest good or bad deed a person does?
  2. 2nd January 1988Which two branches of Islam does this topic compare when looking at attitudes to euthanasia?
  3. 3rd January 1988Which 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?
  4. 4th January 1988Give one reason some people argue that faith imposed during upbringing is not the same as freely chosen, personal belief.
  5. 5th January 1988Name the migration of the Prophet Muhammad and his early followers from Makkah to Madinah to escape persecution.
  6. 6th January 1988Name 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.
  7. 7th January 1988State one reason it can help a court to understand what has contributed to a person's offending before deciding a sentence.
  8. 8th January 1988Besides the victim and the offender, name one other group who can be affected by suffering linked to a crime and its punishment.
  9. 9th January 1988Which 1998 UK law makes rights under the European Convention on Human Rights enforceable in UK courts?
  10. 10th January 1988Give one example of an alternative to a high-cost lender that a church or faith group might support.
  11. 11th January 1988Give one word for the Christian belief that God is present and active within creation and human life, as opposed to being distant and uninvolved.
  12. 12th January 1988Which two New Testament books are most often set against each other in the Christian debate about faith and works?
  13. 13th January 1988What does Job's response in Job 42:1-6, after God speaks from the whirlwind, show about his attitude?
  14. 14th January 1988Give one difference between an 'open table' Communion and a 'closed' Communion.
  15. 15th January 1988According to 1 Corinthians 12:12, what does Paul compare the Church to?
  16. 16th January 1988What is the Arabic term often translated as 'the signs of the Hour'?
  17. 17th January 1988In roughly what period of Muhammad's life, in relation to the Hijrah, is the Night Journey traditionally placed?
  18. 18th January 1988State one difference between a Nabi and a Rasul.
  19. 19th January 1988What is umrah?
  20. 20th January 1988What is the Arabic term for the call to prayer announced from the mosque?
  21. 21st January 1988Name the pillar of Islam that most closely parallels khums in being an obligatory, percentage-based payment.
  22. 22nd January 1988Give one practical issue a religious community might need to decide when a divorced member wishes to remarry.
  23. 23rd January 1988What is meant by a wedding vow?
  24. 24th January 1988Which book of the Bible contains the account of God forming the first human from the dust of the ground?
  25. 25th January 1988Define the term stewardship.
  26. 26th January 1988Which of Joseph's Old Testament dreams anger his brothers, according to Genesis 37:5-11?
  27. 27th January 1988Name the philosopher who developed the modern version of the free will defence.
  28. 28th January 1988Give one non-religious cause of war.
  29. 29th January 1988Identify the religious group named in this topic that has a long historical tradition of pacifism.
  30. 30th January 1988Why might faith motivate someone to volunteer for a peace organisation, rather than just believing peace is a good idea?
  31. 31st January 1988Give one requirement that can be attached to a community sentence.