Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies

September 1995 - GCSE Religious Studies 5-a-day

Every sheet in September 1995

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 1995Give one reason Ibrahim's role as 'an imam (leader) for the people' (Qur'an 2:124) is significant for Shi'a belief.
  2. 2nd September 1995Give one Arabic term for angels.
  3. 3rd September 1995Name the Umayyad caliph whose forces were responsible for the death of Husayn at Karbala.
  4. 4th September 1995Which month does Ashura fall in?
  5. 5th September 1995Besides armed struggle and inner spiritual struggle, name one other way jihad can be expressed according to broader Islamic teaching.
  6. 6th September 1995Give one reason, other than religious teaching, why unmarried cohabiting couples have historically had fewer legal protections than married couples.
  7. 7th September 1995According to 1 Corinthians 11:11-12, in what direction does dependence between men and women run?
  8. 8th September 1995Give one practice associated with Catholic belief in purgatory that most Protestant churches do not follow.
  9. 9th September 1995According to the Qur'an (99:7-8), what happens to even the smallest good or bad deed a person does?
  10. 10th September 1995Which two branches of Islam does this topic compare when looking at attitudes to euthanasia?
  11. 11th September 1995Which 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?
  12. 12th September 1995Give one reason some people argue that faith imposed during upbringing is not the same as freely chosen, personal belief.
  13. 13th September 1995Name the migration of the Prophet Muhammad and his early followers from Makkah to Madinah to escape persecution.
  14. 14th September 1995Name 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.
  15. 15th September 1995State one reason it can help a court to understand what has contributed to a person's offending before deciding a sentence.
  16. 16th September 1995Besides the victim and the offender, name one other group who can be affected by suffering linked to a crime and its punishment.
  17. 17th September 1995Which 1998 UK law makes rights under the European Convention on Human Rights enforceable in UK courts?
  18. 18th September 1995Give one example of an alternative to a high-cost lender that a church or faith group might support.
  19. 19th September 1995Give one word for the Christian belief that God is present and active within creation and human life, as opposed to being distant and uninvolved.
  20. 20th September 1995Which two New Testament books are most often set against each other in the Christian debate about faith and works?
  21. 21st September 1995What does Job's response in Job 42:1-6, after God speaks from the whirlwind, show about his attitude?
  22. 22nd September 1995Give one difference between an 'open table' Communion and a 'closed' Communion.
  23. 23rd September 1995According to 1 Corinthians 12:12, what does Paul compare the Church to?
  24. 24th September 1995What is the Arabic term often translated as 'the signs of the Hour'?
  25. 25th September 1995In roughly what period of Muhammad's life, in relation to the Hijrah, is the Night Journey traditionally placed?
  26. 26th September 1995State one difference between a Nabi and a Rasul.
  27. 27th September 1995What is umrah?
  28. 28th September 1995What is the Arabic term for the call to prayer announced from the mosque?
  29. 29th September 1995Name the pillar of Islam that most closely parallels khums in being an obligatory, percentage-based payment.
  30. 30th September 1995Give one practical issue a religious community might need to decide when a divorced member wishes to remarry.