Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies

September 1994 - GCSE Religious Studies 5-a-day

Every sheet in September 1994

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

  1. 1st September 1994In which cave is Muhammad believed to have first encountered the angel Jibril?
  2. 2nd September 1994Who wrote The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), the key study of mystical experience?
  3. 3rd September 1994Give one virtue that the soul-making theodicy says can be developed through facing suffering.
  4. 4th September 1994Give one just war criterion that judges how proportionate the harm of a war is to the good it might achieve.
  5. 5th September 1994Give one Bible reference that Christians associate with peacemaking.
  6. 6th September 1994Which of the five statutory purposes of sentencing focuses on making amends to those affected by a crime?
  7. 7th September 1994Give the definition of corporal punishment.
  8. 8th September 1994Explain what religious discrimination means, giving a brief example.
  9. 9th September 1994State one Bible reference commonly used to support the equality of all races.
  10. 10th September 1994Give the technical term for a theory of atonement that sees Christ's obedience as reversing or 'undoing' Adam's disobedience.
  11. 11th September 1994According to John 16:7, why does Jesus say it is 'for your good' that he is going away?
  12. 12th September 1994A 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.
  13. 13th September 1994Name the day that marks the start of Lent, on which some Christians receive an ash mark on their forehead.
  14. 14th September 1994According to 1 Corinthians 10:16, what does drinking the cup during Communion involve, in Paul's words?
  15. 15th September 1994According to Qur'an 2:37, how does Adam respond after his mistake, and how does Allah respond in turn?
  16. 16th September 1994Which two things are humans and jinn believed to have that angels do not?
  17. 17th September 1994Name the first four caliphs recognised by Sunni Muslims, in order.
  18. 18th September 1994Which two prayers do many Shia Muslims combine, alongside Maghrib and Isha?
  19. 19th September 1994Why does traditional Islamic teaching insist that armed jihad can only be declared by a legitimate authority, not by individuals?
  20. 20th September 1994Name the legal process a married couple must complete in England if they wish to end their marriage.
  21. 21st September 1994State one non-religious argument for treating men and women equally at work, based on the idea of shared human rights.
  22. 22nd September 1994Give the Latin term for the Protestant doctrine that salvation is by faith alone.
  23. 23rd September 1994Give one non-religious (for example, Humanist) reason for believing death is the end of a person's existence.
  24. 24th September 1994In which surah of the Qur'an does the verse most often quoted in these debates about the value of a single life appear?
  25. 25th September 1994In which year, and against whom, did Russell debate the cosmological argument on BBC radio?
  26. 26th September 1994Give one factor, other than education, that might cause someone's belief to change after a religious upbringing.
  27. 27th September 1994Give one practical need a refugee is likely to have immediately after arriving in a host country.
  28. 28th September 1994Give the primary, most commonly taught meaning of the word jihad for most Muslims, most of the time.
  29. 29th September 1994Suggest one reason a sociologist would treat addiction as a 'risk factor' for crime rather than a 'cause' of crime.
  30. 30th September 1994Complete the quotation: 'I was in prison and ______' (Matthew 25:36).