Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies

October 1992 5-a-day

Every sheet in October 1992

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

  1. 1st October 1992Give one virtue that the soul-making theodicy says can be developed through facing suffering.
  2. 2nd October 1992Give one just war criterion that judges how proportionate the harm of a war is to the good it might achieve.
  3. 3rd October 1992Give one Bible reference that Christians associate with peacemaking.
  4. 4th October 1992Which of the five statutory purposes of sentencing focuses on making amends to those affected by a crime?
  5. 5th October 1992Give the definition of corporal punishment.
  6. 6th October 1992Explain what religious discrimination means, giving a brief example.
  7. 7th October 1992State one Bible reference commonly used to support the equality of all races.
  8. 8th October 1992Give the technical term for a theory of atonement that sees Christ's obedience as reversing or 'undoing' Adam's disobedience.
  9. 9th October 1992According to John 16:7, why does Jesus say it is 'for your good' that he is going away?
  10. 10th October 1992A church's weekly Sunday attendance falls from 120 to 90 over five years, while its midweek 'Messy Church' grows to attract 40 new families. Calculate the percentage fall in Sunday attendance.
  11. 11th October 1992Name the day that marks the start of Lent, on which some Christians receive an ash mark on their forehead.
  12. 12th October 1992According to 1 Corinthians 10:16, what does drinking the cup during Communion involve, in Paul's words?
  13. 13th October 1992According to Qur'an 2:37, how does Adam respond after his mistake, and how does Allah respond in turn?
  14. 14th October 1992Which two things are humans and jinn believed to have that angels do not?
  15. 15th October 1992Name the first four caliphs recognised by Sunni Muslims, in order.
  16. 16th October 1992Which two prayers do many Shia Muslims combine, alongside Maghrib and Isha?
  17. 17th October 1992Why does traditional Islamic teaching insist that armed jihad can only be declared by a legitimate authority, not by individuals?
  18. 18th October 1992Name the legal process a married couple must complete in England if they wish to end their marriage.
  19. 19th October 1992State one non-religious argument for treating men and women equally at work, based on the idea of shared human rights.
  20. 20th October 1992Give the Latin term for the Protestant doctrine that salvation is by faith alone.
  21. 21st October 1992Give one non-religious (for example, Humanist) reason for believing death is the end of a person's existence.
  22. 22nd October 1992In which surah of the Qur'an does the verse most often quoted in these debates about the value of a single life appear?
  23. 23rd October 1992In which year, and against whom, did Russell debate the cosmological argument on BBC radio?
  24. 24th October 1992Give one factor, other than education, that might cause someone's belief to change after a religious upbringing.
  25. 25th October 1992Give one practical need a refugee is likely to have immediately after arriving in a host country.
  26. 26th October 1992Give the primary, most commonly taught meaning of the word jihad for most Muslims, most of the time.
  27. 27th October 1992Suggest one reason a sociologist would treat addiction as a 'risk factor' for crime rather than a 'cause' of crime.
  28. 28th October 1992Complete the quotation: 'I was in prison and ______' (Matthew 25:36).
  29. 29th October 1992In what year was the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted?
  30. 30th October 1992State what Zakah is calculated as a percentage of.
  31. 31st October 1992Give one word for the Christian belief that God is present and active within creation and human life, as opposed to being distant and uninvolved.